Congratulations. If you are watching this video, it probably means that you or a family member has successfully undergone cataract surgery. Most patients do not realize that this is the single most common operation in all of medicine.

Small specks or clouds moving in your field of vision are called floaters. Most floaters are not dangerous and are caused by tiny pieces of tissue inside of the eye. When light hits these pieces of tissue it creates shadows on the retina, that appear to float across your field of vision.