All Entries Tagged With: "presbyopia"
KAMRA Inlay Eye Surgery Arrives in the UK
The KAMRA Inlay eye surgery is a breakthrough in correcting the need for reading glasses, and is now our primary treatment for anyone aged 45 upwards. You can read an article from yesterday’s London Evening Standard all about KAMRA.
Previous Laser Eye Surgery and Ageing
At 47, most people will be showing signs of presbyopia, or age-related loss of near vision. Your myopia will mask those symptoms if you are not wearing glasses.
Reading Glasses Surgery Cost
You have presbyopia so reading vision is getting blurry, but the distance vision remains clear. This happens to everyone starting in their 40s
LASIK Blended Vision & Reading Glasses
LASIK blended vision can correct both distance and near vision, and so reduce or eliminate the need for reading glasses.
Reading Glasses Treatment?
Gill asked this question about laser eye surgery for varifocal and reading glasses: Dear Mr Allamby, I was told last year by my optician I would benefit from varifocal lenses, which I hate.
New lens to restore reading vision for people age 45+
A new lens to help reading vision has received approval from the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA), according to manufacturers Bausch & Lomb, based at Rochester in New York state. These lenses are inserted inside the eye during a procedure very similar to that used for cataract surgery. The natural lens is removed and [...]
Reading vision helped by laser eye surgery
Most people start to need reading glasses after the age of 45 and previously were not eligible for laser eye treatment. All that has changed with advances in technology. FOCUS Laser Vision has been very active in this increasingly popular area of laser eye correction.
Laser Eye Surgery is Effective for Reading Vision
SEVERAL approaches to LASIK are effective in the treatment of reading vision problems (presbyopia) for patients with otherwise normal distance vision, or long or short sight, according to studies presented at the 12th Winter Refractive Meeting of the ESCRS.
Rick Wakeman and his laser eye surgery
Read Rick Wakeman’s story about his laser eye treatment online at the Daily Mail’s website. Rick talks about the whole process in a very interesting article from Rachel Kaufman.
New video on why you need glasses
Watch this video to learn more about why you need glasses. It explains about short sight, long sight, astigmatism and presbyopia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49fqi966os
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