No. LASIK will only eliminate your need for glasses for distance vision. If you have good distance vision, but only need glasses to read you have presbyopia and are not a candidate for LASIK.

Many people achieve 20/20 vision, or better, after undergoing LASIK eye surgery. Although patients experience an improvement in their vision, some may still need to wear corrective lenses for certain tasks, though the necessary power of correction will be much smaller than before. The result of the LASIK procedure is also influenced by the amount of correction needed.

Dr. Grandon can give patients excellent vision, but that does not retard the aging process. Normally people need reading glasses when they reach the ages between 45 and 50. Having had LASIK offers no exception to those patients. [The inability to see close brought on by aging is called presbyopia.] Occasionally, Dr. Grandon purposely leaves one eye (usually the non-dominant eye) a little nearsighted to delay the patient's need for reading glasses.

restore your focus to normal, minimizing your dependence on glasses. Most people need some form of glasses, if only to read.

A prescription for spectacles will generally contain the powers for lenses of each eye, possibly also a reading addition power, information on the separation of the lenses and any special requirements for the lenses (eg, type of lens, tinting, coatings etc). Lens power is written in Dioptres, which is 1/focallength(metres). For example, a 5.0D (5.0 dioptre) lens has a focal length of 0.

The ability to focus on near objects decreases steadily with age and is referred to as presbyopia. Presbyopia is a natural aging of the lens. It is usually near the age of 40, when glasses or bifocals are prescribed to correct this condition.

with any surgical procedure, there are no guarantees. However, the likelihood of achieving 20/20 vision or better is greater with custom LASIK vision correction than with standard LASIK. Custom LASIK can even give patients visual acuity that is superior to what contact lenses or glasses provide.

Our goal is to reduce your dependency on glasses or contact lenses. Some patients may still wear glasses for special tasks such as reading or night driving. After the age of 40, at some point nearly everyone will need glasses to help with near vision for reading and close up work. LASIK cannot halt or reverse the biologic clock of presbyopia, the normal loss of near focusing ability that occurs with age. If you have successfully worn contact lenses for monovision in the past, speak with Dr.

Most people who have the LASIK procedure no longer need to wear glasses for their daily activities. However due to the normal aging of the eye, a condition called “presbyopia”, patients over the age of 40 will most likely have to use reading glasses. Some patients after LASIK surgery will still need a minimum prescription for some activities.

Nearly every patient who has LASIK has adequate vision to function well without correction for distance. The majority of our visual world is no smaller than 20/40. Some patients may find that they require a minor eyeglass correction in order to see fine detail. Also, LASIK does not take away the need for reading glasses that many people begin to experience at about the age of 40.

Throughout childhood and the teens, a person's vision often does not remain stable. The body is constantly developing and changing. LASIK is a permanent procedure. For this reason, LASIK may not be performed on minors. Once your child is 18 or older, and his or her glasses or contacts prescription has been stable for at least a year or two, he or she may wish to consider LASIK corrective eye surgery.

As we age, our eyes lose the ability to focus on images up close. We continually move an image, such as a book or newspaper, farther and farther from our eyes in order to bring it into focus. This condition is called presbyopia. When presbyopia progresses to the point where our arms are not long enough, we need reading glasses or bifocals. Everyone will experience presbyopia, whether they started with corrective lenses or not.

Unfortunately, the answer is usually no. Difficulty reading after the age of 40 is typically due to a hardening of the lens inside of the eye. LASIK is designed to correct nearsightedness and astigmatism by changing the shape of the outer surface of the eye. This change in shape does nothing to help or harm the flexibility of the lens, thus presbyopia (difficulty reading) is neither improved nor diminished.

Many people need reading glasses after they reach age 40. If you wear reading glasses or bifocal lenses, you may be able to eliminate them with monovision, which requires using LASIK to correct your vision so that one eye is slightly nearsighted, for reading without glasses.

Many patients over 40 years old who receive LASIK eye surgery to treat their distance vision will need reading glasses for close vision. This is a condition called presbyopia, in which the lens of the eye progressively weakens, making it more difficult to read small print. However, monovision is a great alternative. Monovision allows patients to see distant objects with one eye and to read with the other eye.

YES! The LASIK procedure will be able to correct your shortsightedness or longsightedness with astigmatism. However, you will still need reading glasses to see clearly up close from 40 years of age onwards. Alternatively, some patients may prefer to have Monovision where LASIK can be performed under one eye so as to leave it slightly myopic, giving the patients the ability to use one eye for near vision while the other eye for distance vision .

Yes, the LASIK procedure can correct your shortsightedness or longsightedness with astigmatism. However, you will still need reading glasses to see up close from 40 years of age onwards. Alternatively, some patients may prefer to have monovision where LASIK can be performed to under-correct one eye leaving it slightly myopic, giving the patient the ability to use one eye for near vision and the other eye for distance vision.

Usually not for distance vision, although some patients may still require thinner glasses for fine tuning. When you are in the age range where bifocals or "readers" are normally required for close vision (usually 40-45 and beyond) you will most likely need reading glasses. This is a natural process known as presbyopia.

Yes, usually to read small print. Currently, nearly all lenses implanted in the USA are monofocal. This means they focus at only one particular distance (focusing distance depends on lens power). If your lens gives you perfect distance vision, you will have to use glasses to read. If your lens gives you perfect reading vision, you will have to use glasses to see clearly at distance.

Patients with virtually every degree of nearsightedness are enjoying good outcomes with LASIK. We are able to treat mild to moderate degrees of farsightedness and astigmatism. For more extreme farsightedness, implantable contact lenses may be an option. Our counselor will be happy to discuss this procedure with you during your free evaluation.

Reading glasses will be required only for people nearing 40 yrs and above. This is due to ageing process. However your surgeon may be able to help you by compromising on distant vision or monovision.

If you are over the age of 40 and do not get monovision, you will have to wear reading glasses. Some patients with monovision opt for driving glasses to wear at night time, but usually are free of glasses for their other needs. If your vision is not optimal after LASIK, and an enhancement is not an option, glasses or contacts may be needed to improve your vision.

After you reach age 40, you may need reading glasses (presbyopia). Laser vision correction cannot eliminate this. However, we may be able to perform a new procedure called CK (conductive keratoplasty) to eliminate the need for reading glasses.

people add candles to their birthday cakes, at about the age of 40, the natural autofocusing lens of the eye begins to lose its autofocus capability. This is when reading glasses appear or nearsighted people start lifting their glasses in order to see up close.

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