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Generally lenses are not placed in pediatric patients which is why it is a difficult decision if only one eye is affected as yo when to do surgery - Also depends on type of cataract. The risk of amblyopia are high with both options unless the parents are really committed to placing contact lenses on the infant's eye after surgery - Also kids tend to have an extreme inflammatory reaction after eye surgery that adults do not and it's harder to get post op drops in and do follow up exams. Also the general anesthesia needed for pediatric eye surgery is not harmless with many studies showing kids who had to have general anesthesia have lower IQs compared to kids with similar med history and background who didnt.

Sounds like you had surgery as a young adult, which means your eyes were their adult size and your visual system was developed allowing the placement of an intraocular lens.

...its not a transplant. And we still don't put intraocular lenses in infants usually for many reasons.

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Because the eye isn't fully grown, so as an adult the lens calculation will not be correct or similar to the other eye - the best vision is usually achieved with a contact lens. Also kids have a huge inflammatory response especially in their eyes with a foreign body (the lens) so it can be risky to place one. There are lots of other reasons why lenses are generally not placed in pediatric patients...