SOUTHERN CATARACT SURGEONS
Ophthalmologist, Dr Brett Rogers, is one of New Zealand’s most experienced Cataract Surgeons.
- Brett has performed more than ten thousand (10,000) cataract operations on Southland, Queenstown/Lakes District, Central Otago and Otago patients, over more than twenty years.
- He operates exclusively on cataracts at Southern Cross Hospital in both Invercargill and in Queenstown.
- He also performs various YAG Laser Eye Surgery procedures at his private ophthalmology consulting rooms in Invercargill & Queenstown.
- Brett obtained his MBChB Medical Degree at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
- He then undertook Ophthalmology training at Auckland Hospital.
- Brett is a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (FRANZCO)
- He is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
- After working as an Ophthalmologist at the Southland Hospital Ophthalmology Department for many years, treating a wide range of ophthalmology conditions and performing thousands of operations for cataracts, eyelid disorders, glaucoma, squint, and many other eye conditions, Brett now works full-time at his private "SOUTHERN CATARACT SURGEONS" Ophthalmology clinics, in both Invercargill and Queenstown, and at Southern Cross Hospitals in each centre, specialising in Cataract Surgery.
- Most of Brett's Southland & South Otago patients see him and have cataract surgery in Invercargill.
- For his Queenstown, Arrowtown, Wanaka and his Central Otago patients from Alexandra, Cromwell & Clyde areas, Brett has private ophthalmology rooms with fully-equipped Cataract Clinics in Queenstown, providing full cataract assessment, including all preoperative IOL calculations and all cataract post-operative follow-up visits, and with cataract surgery now performed at Southern Cross Hospital in Queenstown
- Brett’s passion & special expertise has always been cataract surgery. He is extremely experienced, has an extremely high success rate and particularly enjoys seeing the huge and rapid improvement that cataract surgery can make to his patients’ vision and quality of life.
- Brett has has had very many years' experience in using astigmatism-correcting (toric) intraocular-lenses, implanting over 1,500 such lenses. These ‘premium’ lenses can give even better vision following cataract surgery than regular lenses and significantly reduce or eliminate the need to wear spectacles. Brett now encourages this option of astigmatism-correcting (toric) lenses in well over 50% of his cataract patients.
- He also encourages 'blended vision' as an excellent option for most 2nd-eye cataract patients, to vastly reduce dependence on spectacles for closer-up vision following cataract surgery, as well as having excellent distance vision without spectacles.
- That option can include standard or premium intraocular lenses such as 'extended-depth-of-focus' (EDOF) IOLS, in suitable patients.
- To obtain ideal cataract-surgery outcomes (excellent vision without spectacle dependence) requires not only considerable cataract surgery experience & excellent surgical skills, but also the very best, state-of-the-art diagnostic & surgical equipment for both the preoperative assessment & intraocular lens-power calculations, and for performing the operation itself.
- Brett was the first cataract surgeon in Southland/Otago to use Cataract (OCT) Optical Coherence Tomography Laser Scanning Biometry for cataract assessment. This equipment provides the most accurate and precise intraocular lens (IOL) calculations possible, to help ensure the very best cataract surgery refractive outcomes and excellent postoperative vision.
- Using this, the world’s first Cataract Biometer able to measure the optical power of the inner surface of the cornea as well as that of the outer surface, allows significantly higher precision and accuracy for the intraocular lens calculations.
- Brett was the first Cataract Surgeon in New Zealand to offer this option, which is particularly important for patients requiring astigmatism-correcting lenses and for patients who have had previous Lasik eye surgery.
Ophthalmology is the branch of specialist medicine that is focused on the health of eyes and their surrounding tissues, including muscles, bones, eyelids, and tear production/drainage systems. Your eye is the organ of vision and consists of the cornea (the outer clear layer), the sclera (the white of the eye), the iris (the coloured part), the lens (lies behind the iris) and the retina (the light-sensitive lining at the back of the eye). Your eyes ‘see’ by focusing light that enters the eye onto the retina which sends the image to the brain by the optic nerve.
An Ophthalmologist is a doctor who are trained in the treatment of eye diseases. Most will be trained in eye surgery, and some have particular areas of interest or expertise such as Cataract Surgery.
