What is monovision?
A. Monovision is a method of correcting your vision so that one eye is corrected for distance and the other for near vision in presbyopic patients (patients over 40 years of age). This can potentially can eliminate the need for reading glasses and distance glasses. You need to discuss this further with your doctor to find out if you are a good candidate.
In patients who already experiencing difficulty with reading vision in their distance correction, it is possible to treat one eye for near vision and the other for distance vision. This decreases the necessity for both near and distance glasses. This method is used with LASIK, PRK, and CK. If you are considering monovision, it is advisable to simulate the surgery with contact lenses before proceeding directly to LASIK surgery. If you have already been successful with monovision in contact lenses, you will most likely enjoy this type of correction following PRK, CK or LASIK. If you are over forty and hope to avoid glasses altogether in your life, this is presently the only way to accomplish this.
For patients in their mid-forties who are already experiencing difficulty reading because they have eyewear that corrects for better distance vision, it is possible to treat one eye for near vision and the other for distance vision, thus decreasing the necessity for both near and distance glasses. If you are considering this blended vision (monovision), it is advisable for you to try it out with contact lenses before proceeding directly to LASIK surgery. If you have already experienced successful results with monovision in contact lenses, you will most likely enjoy this type of correction after LASIK.
Introduction What is Refractive Surgery? Refractive surgery is the specialty of ophthalmology that deals with improvement and correction of optical defects of the eye. These optical defects cause people to have difficulity seeing without glasses, contact lenses, or other optical devices. The major types of optical defects are: Myopia or nearsightedness Astigmatism Hyperopia or farsightedness Top Vision What is myopia or nearsightedness? People with myopia can usually read without glasses, but they cannot see far away without glasses or contact lenses. Myopia is a hereditary condition in which the eye is either longer than it should be, or the cornea has too much curvature. What is astigmatism? People with astigmatism see ghost images or double images without their glasses on. In this condition, the cornea is not spherical, but is shaped more like a football or teaspoon. Light entering the eye is distorted by this lack of sphericity, causing blurry images and ghost images. Astigmatism i
