Laser Eye Surgery

... New Corrective Eye Surgery Frees People of All Glasses Even Past Age 50, Says Multifocal LASIK Expert New Corrective Eye Surgery Frees People of All Glasses Even Past Age 50, Says Multifocal LASIK Expert MCHENRY, Ill., March 30 /PRNewswire/ - Are you over forty-five or fifty years old?

Are your arms too short?

Does someone else have to read the menu for you in the restaurant?

Do you have nine pairs of reading glasses?

You have presbyopia.

There is help for you.

LASIK is a brief outpatient procedure that has become quite popular for its success in freeing people of the need for glasses and contact lenses to see in the distance.

The problem had been that for people in their forties LASIK would correct distance vision but still leave people needing reading glasses - just as anyone who had natural 20/20 vision and reached middle age would need reading glasses.

More recently, multifocal LASIK has been used to reduce or eliminate the need for bifocals, according to Robert L.

Epstein, MD, Director of the Mercy Center for Corrective Eye Surgery in McHenry and Niles, Illinois.

People who just wear reading glasses can also have the procedure.

The procedure works for people even past 65 years old and for those who previously had LASIK or even cataract surgery with artificial lens implantation.

Presbyopia happens as the eye loses its ability to change shape of its internal lens.

Presbyopia usually becomes noticeable in the early forties to mi...

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