Ive heard about having my presbyopia treated with a monovision vision correction procedure. What is this?
Although we have not discovered the fountain of youth, many people opt for Monovision Laser Vision Correction to eliminate their need for reading glasses. Monovision correction is achieved by correcting a patient’s dominant eye for clear distance vision, and the non-dominant eye for comfortable near vision. The brain then chooses the clearer image depending upon the focusing point. Standard laser vision correction procedures such as LASIK and LASEK permit us to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, and achieve a Monovision correction, all at the same time! For over a decade, patients have achieved a similar result through the use of contact lenses. Now they can be freed from the expense and everyday hassles of contacts through the use of laser vision correction to create Monovision. Monovision results in a slight decrease in depth perception, which may be more noticeable under dim lighting conditions. For this reason, some Monovision patients opt to keep a pair of g
