PRESBYOPIA TREATMENT IN LOS ANGELES, ORANGE COUNTY & THE INLAND EMPIRE

Refractive or Clear Lens Exchange (CLE) is an excellent solution to treat presbyopia, which is a common condition that can affect people as early as their forties. The procedure for refractive or clear lens exchange is virtually identical to cataract surgery in that the eye’s natural clear lens is replaced with an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) to correct your refractive error

At Laser Eye Center™, we offer a wide selection of premium lenses, and your eye surgeon will recommend an IOL that is most suitable for your individual vision needs and the health of your eyes. By partnering with us for your CLE treatment, you gain independent, clear, and quality vision, all without the need for any visual aids. In other words, you are freed from your reading glasses, while maintaining your distance vision.

During childhood, people with normal vision have the ability to focus on objects as close as their nose and also on objects that are very far away. They can rapidly, without conscious thought, switch focus from near to far vision. This is called accommodation. As each year passes, that ability to focus and to switch focus decreases. By the time most people reach their forties, they often need to introduce a visual aid, such as reading glasses or bifocals, to focus on close-up objects. This decreased elasticity and inability to easily shift focus from near to far is a condition called presbyopia.

Monovision is a technique where one eye (usually the dominant eye) is corrected for clear distance vision and the other eye is corrected for comfortable near vision. Monovision allows a person to see close objects clearly with one eye and distance objects clearly with the other eye. The brain’s vision center tends to filter out the image from the eye that is not in clear focus. Those who have monovision eventually do not pay attention to the eye that is not as clearly focused, gaining the ability to see well at a distance and nearby.

Monovision can be achieved with contact lenses or with vision correction procedures. This is achieved by correcting the non-dominant eye for near vision and the dominant eye for distance vision. Most people automatically adjust to monovision within a couple of weeks or months. In our experience, most people over the age of 40 to 45 who try monovision and take the time to fully become accustomed to it, like it and find it very useful.

Consult with our team at Laser Eye Center™ of Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire for more information and to determine which vision correction procedure is most suitable for your visual needs.