At Shree Netra Eye Foundation, we provide advanced glaucoma treatment, including medication, laser procedures, and glaucoma eye surgery when needed. Our goal is simple to control glaucoma, lower eye pressure, and protect your long-term vision with safe and effective care.
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Glaucoma doesn’t warn you. There’s no pain, no redness, no obvious sign that something’s wrong - until you start losing peripheral vision. By then, the damage to your optic nerve is already done. Surgery for glaucoma works by lowering eye pressure to stop that damage from getting worse. If eye drops aren’t cutting it anymore, this is the next step.
Your eye constantly produces a clear fluid. That fluid flows in, nourishes the front of your eye, and drains out through a tiny mesh-like channel. Simple system. But when that drainage gets sluggish or blocked, fluid backs up. Pressure inside the eye climbs. And over time, that pressure crushes the optic nerve fibres one by one. That’s glaucoma.
The main cause of glaucoma in most people? That drainage system just stops working properly. Nobody fully knows why. Age, genetics, and certain health conditions (diabetes, high blood pressure) raise the risk. The tricky part: primary open-angle glaucoma — the most common type of glaucoma — does all this damage silently. You feel nothing until it’s too late.
The type of glaucoma you have decides how your doctor treats it. Get this wrong and you’re solving the wrong problem. Here’s how they break down:
Not every glaucoma surgery is major. Some use a laser and take five minutes. Others involve placing a small tube inside your eye. Here’s what each one actually does.
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Uses a laser to nudge the drainage tissue in your eye to work harder. Takes about 10 minutes. No cutting. You go home the same day. Best for open-angle glaucoma when eye drops aren’t doing enough. Procedures like laser trabeculoplasty often reduce how many drops you need.
For angle-closure glaucoma specifically. The surgeon uses a laser to make a tiny hole in your iris so fluid can reach the drainage channel again. Quick, usually painless, and it stops those dangerous pressure spikes. This is often a preventive measure for the other eye too.
The surgeon creates a small opening in the white part of the eye and removes a sliver of tissue for fluid to drain out of the eye into a pocket under the surface. Like trabeculectomy procedures everywhere, this one’s been around for decades. It works well when you need a big pressure drop. Recovery takes a few weeks.
A small tube gets placed inside the eye. It routes fluid to a tiny plate stitched to the eye’s surface. The fluid collects there and your body absorbs it. Drainage implant surgery is usually the call when trabeculectomy didn’t hold or your case is complicated.
Newer, gentler procedures. Less tissue disruption, faster recovery. A MIGS procedure places a microscopic device to improve your eye’s natural drainage. The pressure drop isn’t as dramatic as trabeculectomy, but it’s enough for mild-to-moderate cases. Often combined with cataract surgery in the same sitting.
This laser treatment targets the part of your eye that makes fluid. Less fluid produced means lower eye pressure. Usually reserved for advanced glaucoma or cases where other glaucoma surgeries haven’t worked. Can be done as outpatient surgery.
No one’s rushing you into surgery. We run a full workup - eye pressure, optic nerve imaging, visual field test - to diagnose glaucoma properly. Then we talk options.
You’ll know exactly what’s going on with your eyes. What type of glaucoma, how advanced, and what each treatment option actually involves. No jargon dumps.
We don’t default to one procedure. Laser, MIGS, trabeculectomy — the recommendation depends on your glaucoma type, severity, and overall eye health. Not on what’s most convenient for us.
Our eye surgeon uses current diagnostic and surgical technology. That matters because precision directly affects how well a glaucoma surgery performs long term.Our clinic environment is designed to make visits smooth and stress-free for both new and returning patients.
Weeks after surgery, you’ll be back for check-ups. We track your eye pressure, watch how the surgery site heals, and adjust glaucoma medications after surgery as needed.
Glaucoma check, cataract evaluation, retina screening — everything happens under one roof. If your glaucoma surgery needs to be combined with cataract surgery, we handle both.
People with glaucoma often ask us: what does the whole process look like, start to finish? Here it is.
Surgery isn’t a magic fix. Here’s an honest look at what comes with it.
Complication risks vary by procedure, ranging from potential scarring in traditional surgeries to mild soreness following lower-risk laser treatments. Your surgeon will discuss specific risks for your case to ensure you understand the safety profile of your chosen treatment.
Laser recovery takes just a day or two, while more invasive glaucoma surgeries typically require two to four weeks of restricted activity and medicated drops. Although recovery speed varies by procedure, many patients successfully reduce their reliance on long-term eye medications following these treatments.
While surgery cannot restore vision already lost to glaucoma, it effectively lowers eye pressure to prevent further permanent damage. Success requires lifelong follow-up care and potential medication to ensure your vision remains stable long after the procedure is complete.
Straight answers to the things patients with glaucoma ask us most.
Glaucoma is a disease of eye in which there is a gradual damage of the optic nerve, the nerve fibres responsible for vision, due to a variety of reasons with or without an increase in intraocular pressure.
When an eye is affected with glaucoma, it gradually loses vision leading to a complete and irreversible blindness. There is no medicine or surgery available so far once the vision is lost due to glaucoma. So it is important to detect and treat it early. Once a proper treatment is done one can retain the vision.
Glaucoma can be acute and chronic. In acute glaucoma there is a lot of pain in the eye and headache, nausea and vomiting, a very red eye associated with a sharp decrease in vision. It is a medical emergency and if not treated in time a person can lose his eyesight permanently within 2 or 4 days.
Schedule an eye exam with our team. If something’s off, we’ll catch it. If everything’s fine, you’ll know for sure. Either way, your eyes are in the right place.
