Do those glasses make you look old and boring? Are you tired of looking the same no matter how good you are dressed? Or are you spectacles giving people an impression that you do not want to give? Its time to move on to lenses.
Let’s find out a few things about bifocal lenses before you [...]
It?s true that LASIK can eliminate a person?s dependency on eyeglasses and contact lenses. It can correct a variety of refractive errors, such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. However, LASIK surgery is not for everyone. There are certain conditions that might preclude LASIK in case of a particular patient. Age is one such factor taken [...]
Are you tired of wearing those rose-tinted spectacles on your nose all the time? Then you should start wearing the contact lens to see the world in a different way. Contact lenses are thin, curved plastic disks that are designed to cover the cornea, the clear front covering of the eyes. These delicate objects cling [...]
Presbyopia, also known as ?short arm syndrome?, is a medical term used to describe a vision defect where the natural lens loses its accommodation power. Accommodation power refers to the ability of the eye lens to change its focal distance, depending on whether the object in view is placed up-close or far away. This is [...]
Presbyopia is an eye disorder that normally sets in between the ages of 40-50. A lot many theories have been suggested to delineate its proper cause. However, the most convincing theory is that the eye lens loses its elasticity over time, and this in turn results in the loss of accommodation power of the lens. [...]
LASIK - stands for Laser in-Situ Keratomileusis
The Ideal Candidate
In general, the ideal candidate for LASIK is over 18 years of age and has healthy corneas. Candidates must not have had a significant increase in their prescription in the last 12 months. People with certain medical conditions or women who are pregnant may not be good [...]
You may be getting to that age, even though you may not want to admit it, that you can’t see the stop sign from 50 feet away anymore. But you also can’t see it clearly when you’re 5 feet away from it either.
Nearsightedness, or the inability to see long distances, is something you may [...]
If you are considering going through Lasik eye surgery here are a few things you will want to take into consideration :-
Will there be any impact on your career - does your job prohibit refractive surgery?
Is the financial cost to high - can you really afford this procedure?
Existing medical conditions - e.g., do you have [...]
When I turned 40, I notice that text would be blurry when I tried to read it up close. At first I ignored this, but after a year or so, I noticed that I was holding packages and books at arms length in order to see them. The first time I caught myself [...]
Eyeglasses with thick lenses and a line across them were the only option for people with both nearsightedness and farsightedness. Eyeglass frames were heavy and not only that they were to say the least unattractive. Bifocal Contact lenses were difficult to get used to wearing. Going down stairs especially, you need to look either up [...]
