Even if you’ve never worn eyeglasses or corrective lenses, chances are you know about nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), and astigmatism. You may even have one of these vision
correction conditions. But there’s one other condition that commonly develops in people around the age of 40 you
may not have heard of: presbyopia.
Presbyopia is a normal, natural part of our eyes’ aging process, and it happens to just about everyone. As you
age, the crystalline lens in your eye hardens and loses elasticity. With this loss of flexibility, your eyes are
less able to adjust properly to focus near objects. You may start to experience blurry vision when reading or
looking at your smartphone. Then, focusing between distances can become more difficult.
While presbyopia can’t be corrected with laser eye surgery or vision shaping therapy, you still have several
options that will help provide clear vision – both near and
far:
Multifocal Contact Lenses
Bausch + Lomb Multi-Focal contact lenses are designed to provide clear vision—up close, far away and in between.
These lenses feature the 3-Zone Progressive design that eases the transitions eyes have to make from
near to far distance. Talk to your eye care professional to see if Bausch + Lomb
Ultra for Presbyopia or Biotrue ONEday for Presbyopia contact lenses are right for you.
Magnifiers and Vision Accessories
Embroidering, building models, reading maps, and seeing the numbers on small technical instruments can become
challenging as we move into presbyopia and experience other changes in vision. Brighter lighting can help with
close-up work, but sometimes you need additional help.
Magnifiers bring fine print and needlework
into focus, and they come in many sizes to help match the level of magnification you need for your task. And if
you need both hands to perform delicate work, you can use a hands free magnifier.
Eyeglasses
If you prefer to wear eyeglasses for vision correction, reading glasses or readers may help. There are also
plenty of options with bifocal, trifocal and progressive eyeglass lenses.
Cataracts and Presbyopia
Crystalens AO lens
is an artificial lens implant that can treat both a person's cataracts and presbyopia—the clouding or hardening
of your lenses, and the loss of near and intermediate vision, respectively. Like a natural lens, this artificial
lens implant uses the eye muscle to flex and accommodate in order to focus on objects in the environment at all
distances. Crystalens dynamically adjusts to your visual needs.
Please click
here to see Crystalens details and important safety information.
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