What are my options to restore reading vision - presbyopia?

http://Herzig-Eye.com As a person ages, the natural lens stops functioning, usually by the age of 45, people need reading glasses. And what that means is that the lens inside their eye is no longer doing the work it was doing when they were younger. With laser vision correction, either Lasik or PRK, patients are offered monovision. Monovision means that one of their eyes is fully corrected for distance, while the non-dominant eye is left a little under-corrected, leaving some nearsightedness in that eye, so that eye can continue to read. We also have, with Refractive Lens Exchange, the option of putting in a lens that can correct both distance and reading vision. The most common lens that we use is called a Multifocal Lens and this lens gives excellent distance vision and reading vision in both eyes.

There is also an Accommodative Intraocular Lens. This is a technology thats still in transition and while it can provide some reading vision for some patients, it doesnt do so as consistently as the Multifocal Lens.

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