Monovision

At the age of forty to forty five, there are people who start getting presbyopia. They need to use reading glasses or bifocals if they want to see objects up close. For your distance eye or the eye that you use to see objects at far distances, the dominant eye is used for focusing. For looking at objects up close, the non-dominant eye is used for focusing. Monovision can be put into place by means of refractive surgery, contact lenses, or intraocular lenses.

How will monovision with contact lenses work?

Using monovision, you will wear one contact lens on one eye in order to fix your focusing on objects at a distance. This eye is your dominant eye. On the other eye, you will wear a contact lens that is used for focusing on nearby objects. This eye is the non-dominant eye.

Monovision may seem to be an odd choice but a lot of people are able to adjust to it in a jiffy. Sometimes they don’t even notice that one of their eyes is responsible for looking at objects at a distance while the other eye is responsible for looking at an object up close. Each of the lens used has only one power so you can have different types of lenses prescribed to you by your doctor over a period of time.

What are the drawbacks from using monovision?

The major drawback of using monovision is that each eye will work on its own instead of them working together. As a result, you may have to adjust your head a lot in order to see properly. You will also lose some ability to perceive depth.

What are the surgical options for monovision?

In order to treat presbyopia, surgical procedures for monovision may be used. Through LASIK and CK or conductive keratoplasty, one can avail of correction through monovision. People who have monovision surgery will go through an adaptation period. Their brain will learn how to use two different eyes for different tasks. If you want to find out whether you are open to the idea of monovision, you can try out contact lenses first before opting for surgery.

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