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Presbyopia is a condition that typically becomes noticeable for most people around age 45. In children and young adults, the lens inside the eye can easily focus on distant and near objects. With age, the lens loses its ability to focus adequately.
Although presbyopia is not completely understood, it is thought that the lens and its supporting structures lose the ability to make the lens longer during close vision effort. To compensate, affected individuals usually find that holding reading material further away makes the image clearer. Ultimately, aids such as reading glasses are typically needed by the mid-forties.
Besides glasses, presbyopia can be dealt with in a number of ways. Options include: monovision lasik (one eye adjusted for far and mid, the other eye adjusted for mid and near vision) and multifocal contact lenses, monovision laser vision correction, and new presbyopia correcting implant lenses.
Please contact us for a monovision trial with Dr. Moadel.