All About Color Vision Deficiency
What is Color Vision Deficiency?
Color vision deficiency, or color blindness, is the inability to distinguish certain shades of colors. In highly severe cases, people can’t see the concerned colors at all, though very few people are completely color blind (who can see things only as black, white, and shades of gray).
Color blindness occurs when there is damage or loss of cones, which are the photoreceptors in the retina, making color vision possible. If the cones lack one or more light-sensitive pigments, the color perception will be deficient, making it difficult to see one or more of the three primary colors.
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Dr. Azhar I. Salahuddin is an ophthalmologist and is fellowship-trained in cornea, external diseases, and refractive surgery. Dr. Salahuddin has been performing cataract surgery for over 19 years and specializes ocular reconstruction, corneal transplantation surgery as well as vision correction through a variety of intraocular lenses. Dr. Salahuddin is board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and was trained at Boston University.
