
Originally Posted by
Hmac
There are some other options for correction of presbyopia. An artificial lens can be implanted that obviously has more flexibility. IIUC, it's used more after lens extraction for cataracts. Some places, it's used as a primary treatment for presbyopia but IMHO it's not necessarily a mature technology - the results aren't as predicable as LASIK. I've found it easier to just pick up cheap reading glasses from Amazon. I would gladly exchange good distant vision for good close up vision when I can just pick up a pair of cheap reading glasses for close-up vision. That's what I did when I opted for refractive keratoplasty 20 years ago. Now, I still don't need correction for 20/20 distant vision, but I do need readers. I use 2.5 diopters for reading and 1.5 diopters for seeing the front sight of my pistols.
The other option is monocular correction via LASIK. One eye is corrected for distant vision, the other for closer up. Not everybody's brain can handle that and process the two different focal lengths. With practice, I've found that it works for me, the reason I have a stick-on 1.5 diopter lens on the dominant eye of my shooting glasses and the other lens uncorrected.
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