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Getting older and needing reading glasses - PRESBYOPIA
It comes to us all sooner or later!
Sooner or later, even if you have perfect distance vision, you'll find that the small print seems to be smaller than it used to be or your arms just aren't long enough to hold the newspaper. Sadly it's a fact of life, as we get older our eye muscles just don't have the same oomph that they used to and that makes reading the small print....or threading a needle really difficult.
What is NOT a fact of life is that this deterioration means that you're confined to glasses for the rest of your life.
Nothing could be further from the truth! Geoff fitted his first bifocal contact lens in 1966 and he wasn't the first - other top specialists have been fitting them since the 1950s. Today we have many options including the Triton Rigid Bifocal and Trifocal Lens from Australia. We also have multifocals to correct both distance (where needed) and reading. These are available as Flexible Oxygen Permeable Lenses, Soft Lenses and even as Sleep-In Lenses.
An interesting feature of many multifocal lenses is that unlike bifocals or varifocal glasses (where you can only see to read when you look down) you can see close up regardless of what direction you're looking in.
An alternative and very effective method is Mono-Vision. This is when one eye is corrected for distance and one for reading. It may sound strange, but trust us - it's used around world and is very successful for many patients.
If it should happen that none of the standard ‘off the peg' designs available work for you - don't worry, we can custom design something that will be just right for you!
So - if you or your friends have been told that because you're older you're going to have to wear glasses, come and see us and we'll show you how you can get rid of them forever!
There are many multifocals - the above illustrates how one popular design works.
Multifocal vision compared to Monovision - when one eye is used to see distance and the other to see close.