Understanding Your Monovision Options
Struggling to focus on nearby objects? Holding books at a distance and squinting at your phone? Presbyopia happens to everybody, usually starting around age 40. While people generally start relying on reading glasses, that’s not your only option.
Monovision could be an effective solution if you need two different prescriptions for distance and close-up vision. At Central Valley Eye Medical Group, Inc., our fellowship-trained and board-certified doctors provide monovision services for our Stockton, Manteca, and Modesto, CA patients because we understand how important it is to have convenient, comfortable, and seamless vision correction options that fit into your life.
Understanding Monovision
Monovision is an alternative to constantly swapping glasses and wearing bifocals. With this approach, your dominant eye has a distance vision correction, and the other eye (your non-dominant eye) has a close-up vision correction.
Your brain has tremendous adaptive powers, and monovision capitalizes on that. The brain automatically ignores the unfocused image and hones in on the focused one. Because one eye is optimized for each prescription, this gives you clear vision with both distances.
Your brain adapts over time, and most patients enjoy clear vision at all distances, free from glasses, within a few weeks or months.
Monovision Treatment Options
The main options for achieving monovision are LASIK and contact lenses.
Monovision LASIK
This procedure involves laser surgery to correct each eye independently. With traditional LASIK, both eyes are corrected for one distance. But, by about age 40 (when presbyopia sets in), most people with LASIK start relying on reading glasses for near distances. Monovision LASIK can help you avoid that.
Monovision Contact Lenses
With monovision contact lenses, you have a different prescription for each eye. Monovision contact lenses are a non-surgical way to try out monovision before committing to surgery. We often recommend this approach before our patients schedule monovision LASIK.
Monovision Cataract Surgery
If you have cataracts, you can opt for monovision intraocular lenses (IOLs), each lens having its distance. Or, consider multifocal lenses that contain multiple prescriptions in both eyes.
Benefits of Monovision
Monovision offers several advantages for people with presbyopia or those who require two different prescriptions. In addition to the visual freedom, you get improved convenience. No more stopping to find your glasses and put them on before you can read an email, menu, or text message! Many of our patients also say they feel more confident after monovision.
Monovision in Stockton, Manteca, and Modesto, CA
Central Valley Eye Medical Group, Inc. offers personalized monovision solutions to suit your needs. Phone our Stockton office at (209) 952-3700, our Manteca office at (209) 239-5303, or our Modesto office at (209) 579-8800 to book a consultation and explore your monovision options.
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