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Are you in the age group where you find the telephone directory print is “getting” smaller and smaller each year? Are you arms not long enough to focus on menus or even the newspaper? Have you ever been to dinner with friends around your age and had to share each others reading glasses in order to read the menu? If you are over forty you may need reading glasses, bifocals or progressives for your vision correction. Does having to put reading glasses on and off for reading annoy you? Then multifocal contact lenses may be a suitable option for you. The technology to have a multifocal design is available in a contact lens. Although the contact lens provides you with the vision in a different way, it may still be suitable for your needs. This cutting edge technology provides you with correction for both your distance and near visual requirements which may reduce the number of times you require your reading glasses.
Before answering this lets talk very briefly on how normal non-astigmatism contact lenses are designed. Your contact lens, as you may know, sit on the cornea and is meant to be slightly larger than the cornea. This is designed to ensure optimum comfort and health of your eyes whilst your contact lenses sit on your eye. The area of lens that sits over your pupil would normally have your prescription embedded into the contact lenses. The size of this area will vary depending on your lens and it’s not something we can usually change in disposable soft contact lenses. Who cares you may say? Well so long as your contact lenses are fitting your eyes properly, the lens area and your pupil will all line up and your vision should be good. This is something your optometrist is trained to do. Let’s take a look at how multifocal lenses are designed. A multifocal lens will sit in a similar position as other contact lenses and will also overlap your corneas. The area within your pupil will contain the prescription part of the lenses and this is made by alternating rings of distance and reading prescriptions (like the growth rings of a tree stump). Providing that these rings centre within your pupil you should get reasonably good vision with the multifocal contact lenses.
Ask us for more information about contact lenses! Does your spectacles frames get in the way and restricts your field of view especially when backing out a car or parking a car? Contacts lenses may be a suitable answer for this problem. To be fair modern smaller frames are great for comfort and style, but you can never achieve the field of vision nor can you come close to the maximum field of vision you get from a contact lens. Better field of vision also means better peripheral vision for driving, sports etc.
Contact lenses are a safe alternative to glasses. If you play any sport, glasses are often a hazard to yourself and your team-mates as the “just get in the way”. It is safer and cheaper than getting laser surgery done (Although laser surgery is quite safe, correction with a contact lens does not involve any “cutting” to achieve a good result).
Try a pair of contact lenses today. Consult your valued qualified optometrists’ advice on your eyes.
Simple isn’t it? See your optometrist and “see” the difference it can make to your convenience.
If you need astigmatism correction you may find that multifocal contact lenses may not provide best vision for you. A solution would be to have one eye focused for your distance vision and the other eye focused for your near vision using contact lenses. This is what we call blended vision or mono vision. Your brain is able to adapt quite well to this situation, provided you give it time. Your optometrist is the best person to talk to you about all your contact lens options. Why not give them a call and book an appointment?
Contact lenses won’t get in the way or steam up if you’re working out at the gym or at home. Have you ever done an activity that caused your glasses to steam up? Sometimes stepping out of an air-conditioned building or vehicle can do that and momentarily obscure your vision. Contact lenses provide a suitable solution to this common problem.
Only short sighted eyes may be suitable for contact lenses. This statement is not true. Most eyes can have a contact lens fitted to suit. Toric lenses are also available to correction of astigmatism. Soft Contact lenses for astigmatism have been around for a number of years. Recent designs of contact lenses with advanced stabilising technology have improved comfort, vision correction and most importantly the stability of vision. Have you always thought that contact lenses are not available for your eyes due to your astigmatism? You may be surprised to find them suitable for your eyes. Suitability will vary, like all eyes, however its best to talk to your optometrist to see whether your eyes are suitable
A pair of progressive/multifocal or bifocal spectacles has different prescriptions, just like the multifocal contact lenses. These different focal lengths (prescriptions) are positioned in different parts of the lenses (Top for distance and bottom for reading). With the multifocal contact lenses you are looking through BOTH distance and near for all visual tasks and different distances. With progressive/multifocal spectacles you are looking through different parts of the glasses to get your different focus distances. When you look through rings of distance and near there is some interference to your vision. This means that your distance vision and your near vision may not be as clear as progressive/multifocal spectacles, thus there is a little bit of compromise. To be fair approximately 50-70% of people who try multifocal contact lenses will be happy. Some may still need to use spectacles over their contact lenses for very close tasks. Others may not like them at all. Your optometrist is the best person to advise you whether your eyes are suitable or not. If you are, it is very important you have an open mind as it could take time and a few trials before the best vision for you is achieved. But the journey is worth taking if some freedom from your spectacles is something you would like.
A pair of progressive/multifocal or bifocal spectacles has different prescriptions, just like the multifocal contact lenses. These different focal lengths (prescriptions) are positioned in different parts of the lenses (Top for distance and bottom for reading). With the multifocal contact lenses you are looking through BOTH distance and near for all visual tasks and different distances. With progressive/multifocal spectacles you are looking through different parts of the glasses to get your different focus distances. When you look through rings of distance and near there is some interference to your vision. This means that your distance vision and your near vision may not be as clear as progressive/multifocal spectacles, thus there is a little bit of compromise. To be fair approximately 50-70% of people who try multifocal contact lenses will be happy. Some may still need to use spectacles over their contact lenses for very close tasks. Others may not like them at all. Your optometrist is the best person to advise you whether your eyes are suitable or not. If you are, it is very important you have an open mind as it could take time and a few trials before the best vision for you is achieved. But the journey is worth taking if some freedom from your spectacles is something you would like.