Presbyopia is the state where the lens of the eye cannot normally alter its distance of focus. In a normal eye, focusing distance can be comfortably changed from a table to the sky, to a garden plant, and then again to the table, while everything stays clearly focused. It is because of the accommodation of the eye.  Presbyopia, which means “aging vision”, affects every one some time after the age of forty, which makes it hard for people to focus on objects that are close and also in reading fine print. There are three kinds of presbyopia correction treatments.

Eye Glasses – Usually, individuals suffering from presbyopia make use of corrective eye gear like using glasses to read, bi focals, or lenses which are progressive, to improve vision and have clarity of sight at a closer distance.

• Reading glasses are used only to read and do work at a close range. These glasses just magnify everything that an individual looks at.
• Bifocals have 2 distinct prescriptions. Improving nearvision is one and improving distancevision is the other. There is an obvious line of division between both.
• Lenses of the progressive kind are more gradual in their movement from one sort of prescription to the next. There are also trifocal lenses, which have 3 varying strengths of prescription. The one in the centre’s for a distance that is intermediate. There is no transient leap to the next prescription from one of them. This is because the lens is manufactured using transitions which are smooth.

Contacts – Sometimes individuals prefer to use contacts instead of spectacles. There are three choices.

• Contacts that use bifocal lenses. They which work exactly like bi focal spectacles.

• Contacts that use multifocal lenses. They work by providing many areas of focusing to enable a transition that is natural from close-by to fardistance sight. There exist several kinds of variations.
• Monovision contacts operate on another kind of logic. The dominant eye takes care of  distancevision and the non dominant eye take care of nearvision. It’s safest to let an eye surgeon decide which of the eyes is using what kind of vision, but as a rule of thumb right hand dominant individuals have right eye dominance and the opposite happens in the left hand dominant individuals. Though a period of getting used to lenses in monovision exists, brains soon get used to the 2 images which differ from each other.

Monovision lasik – Lasik surgeries are helping many individuals with vision problems. But standard laser eye treatment cannot correct presbyopia. Standard laser eye treatment cannot correct presbyopia because it isn’t created by curvature of the cornea. Lasik surgery changes the curvature of the cornea in the eyes to rectify vision. Presbyopia’s problem is with the lens. Monovision lasik can rectify one of the eyes for nearvision and leave the other one alone, for distancevision. The brain re-learns using the data from both eyes.  Prescriptions glasses, contact lenses and monovision lasik can all be a solution for Presbyopia correction for the eyes.