The definitive treatment for presbyopia
Written by:The presbyopia or eyestrain is the difficulty to focus on next vision that appears from 40-45 years. It is a natural physiological process that affects all people, manifesting sooner or later as the case.
For the correction of presbyopia are different techniques selected for each case, as a function of the age of the person, the graduation you need for far vision and the characteristics of the eye.
The surgery through multifocal lens implant is currently the most used for presbyopia. It consists in the replacement of ( natural lens of the eye) transparent crystal by a lens unit that allows focus without glasses vision both far and near vision.
Before the intervention, the most appropriate lens for the patient depending on the needs and characteristics of your eye is determined.
multifocal or monofocal lenses
Although presbyopia can be corrected with different techniques in the Institut de la Macula Retina i recommend, being the methods more secure, stable, effective and definitive, clear lens extraction with implantation of different intraocular lenses, whether multifocal lenses ( bifocal / trifocal ) in monofocal monovision, monovision or advanced
To perform this type of surgery, doctors previously performed a detailed patient needs before resorting to intervention, for so deciding the most appropriate technique and intraocular lens in each case study.
As for the recovery of this type of intervention, one of the advantages of this procedure. The technique is performed by small incision and recovery is rapid. By removing the lens, also prevents cataract surgery in the future.
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