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When your eyes were young, your natural lens was
both transparent and flexible. Because of this, your vision was most likely
stable until you reached your forties. Around that time you may have noticed
that you had to hold a menu or book farther and farther away to read it.
Many people end up wearing a pair of reading glasses or bifocals to
compensate for this aging of the eye. This condition is called presbyopia
and eventually affects everyone, including those who are nearsighted,
farsighted, have cataracts or had perfect vision most of their lives.
 Presbyopia
correcting deluxe lens technology brings together the well established technique
generally used for cataract removal and exciting new lenses, which provides
patients the ability to see images that are near, intermediate and distant
without glasses.
Although patients over the age of 40 have good distance vision following
LASIK and other refractive procedures, their age requires the need for
reading glasses. With the
apodized or
accommodating lens, our doctors can
replace your natural lens with a lens that will allow good functional vision
at both distance and near - greatly reducing your dependence on both reading
and distance corrective glasses.
Each presbyopia correcting lens has specific patient guidelines. After
careful evaluation of your vision, as well as your visual expectations and
lifestyle, your surgeon will help you choose which lens is best suited to
your visual needs.
The presbyopia correcting lens is just one of a number of exciting
refractive and therapeutic procedures available to you through the skill of
the surgeons at Grossnickle Eye Center. |
