New, Effective Treatment For Presbyopia - Middle Age Need For Reading Glasses

Main Category: Eye Health / Blindness
Article Date: 05 Aug 2008 - 0:00 PDT

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Until now, people could expect to need reading glasses or bifocals during or after middle age due to an aging process called presbyopia. But today, according to results from a Midwest eye surgical team led by Robert L. Epstein, MD and just published in the Journal of Refractive Surgery, a process called presbyLASIK completely eliminated the need for all glasses for 92% of middle aged patients, and the effect was proven to last beyond two years.

Patients treated by the McHenry, Illinois-based Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery averaged 53 years old and all were initially in bifocals and reading glasses. According to Epstein, presbyLASIK applies not only to people with otherwise normal eyes who wear reading glasses or bifocals, but also to people who had cataract surgery in the past and then wish to be out of glasses.

For more information, please contact Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery at 1-800-I-CAN-SEE (1-800-422-6733) or visit http://www.icansee.com.

Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery