Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
Life Without Reading Glasses or Bifocals
If you currently use bifocals, progressives, or reading glasses, you may have assumed you will still need them after cataract surgery. Today’s advanced multifocal and extended-depth-of-focus lenses allow most patients to see clearly at near, intermediate, and far distances, often becoming completely free of glasses for the first time in decades.
What is a multifocal lens?
During cataract surgery your cloudy natural lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens. A standard monofocal lens corrects only distance vision and leaves you dependent on reading glasses for everything else. Multifocal lenses are specially engineered with multiple focus zones so light is focused correctly at all distances at the same time. This gives you a full, continuous range of clear vision: reading a book or phone up close, working on a computer or dashboard at arm’s length, and driving or watching television in the distance.
Why this is far better than glasses or bifocals
Glasses and bifocals force you to tilt your head to find the right zone and still cause distortion and limited side vision. A multifocal lens works naturally inside your eye and delivers smooth, sharp vision in every direction with no lines, no fogging, no slipping.
Patients read books, menus, phones, price tags, and labels without ever reaching for glasses. Computer work and dashboard viewing feel effortless. You can move freely from task to task without pausing to put on or take off readers. The correction is permanent and lasts your lifetime. For some tasks you may still want reading glasses, such as very fine print on the back of a soup can or a small menu in a dimly lit restaurant, but you can go from putting reading glasses on twenty times a day to just a few.
Am I a candidate?
Almost anyone who uses reading glasses now is a potential candidate. We only need a few quick, painless measurements during your cataract evaluation to confirm the ideal lens for you and show exactly how much independence you can expect.
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