Monovision

    SEATTLE, WA, July 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Presbyopia is a vision condition many people begin to notice in their 40s. Aging eyes lead to blurred vision close up, which causes people to need reading glasses or bifocals. While some may be fine with reading glasses, others won't and may be candidates for a procedure called monovision. This procedure corrects the dominant eye for distance and the other eye for close up vision. Your brain will then compensate for both eyes so that you can have relatively clear vision with both eyes. A trained ophthalmologist can help to determine if you are a candidate for monovision.

Monovision Options
Three options are available to those interested in monovision:

- Monovision contact lenses - Just like traditional contacts, except one is for seeing at a distance and the other for near vision. These may be worn with or without reading glasses, depending on how well you can see.

- LASIK monovision surgery - An ophthalmologist permanently corrects the eyes for monovision. Each cornea is reshaped in this procedure, just as they are in traditional LASIK.

- Intraocular lenses (IOL) - IOLs are implantable lenses that can be placed in front of your natural lens, or can completely replace the lens in cataract surgery. As with contact lenses, IOL will have one lens for distance and one for near vision.

While there are some limitations of monovision, there is a low incidence of haloes and night vision problems.

For those who are tired of wearing reading glasses or bifocals, or who have been told they are not candidates for LASIK, monovision may be right for you.

If you are in the Seattle or Bellevue area and are interested in the monovision procedure, please visit the website of Bellevue LASIK & Cornea today at www.bellevue-lasik.com.

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