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What is Presbyopia

Date:2021-09-17 Browse:1962

It is the natural human lens alone that manages accommodation of the eye, i.e. the process to change the point of focus from a near object to a distant object. The natural lens consist of a flexible soft mass and its curvature is being controlled by the activity of very tiny muscles.


Presbyopia is characterised by a gradual loss of flexibility of the natural lens progressing with age. The accommodation ability of the eye, necessary above all for near vision, will be reduced continuously as we age. As a consequence this hardening of the natural lens will lead to a loss of near vision over the years.

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What does Presbyopia mean to me?

 

Everyday activities - such as reading, working on the computer or using your mobile phone - will become more and more taxing on the eye. Therefore, you may be required to wear glasses to aid activities such as reading or working on the computer.

 

However wearing and using spectacles also means a great deal of annoyance in everyday life. In particular active people or those who frequently have to raise or lower their gaze while doing their job often get frustrated with their eyeglasses.

 

Refractive Lens Surgery


Modern eye surgery makes it possible to correct presbyopia during one single gentle routine intervention.

By implantation of an innovative multifocal intraocular lens an optimum correction of presbyopia can be achieved; the patients may become almost completely spectacle independent for near and far vision as well as for the essential intermediate vision in between.

Clinical studies have confirmed that a very high degree of spectacle independence has been achieved in more than 90% of all patients treated with modern multifocal lenses.