If neither contacts nor glasses are for you, then the recent advances in laser eye surgeries give hope for a new type of LASIK surgery to help patients that need bifocal lenses.

With more than 90 million people diagnosed with presbyopia every year most of which are in their 40s and 50s, the need for a corrective surgery has grown more and more. Seeing patients with myopia and other visual condition getting their visual acuity back through various types of eye surgery why shouldn’t presbyopia patients have the same opportunity?

They should but still cannot, as this type of laser eye surgery procedure is still in its experimental phases. Unlike the other types of surgery this one is more complex and poses more risks. The surgery mainly alters the shape of the cornea in various points so your eye can recover its multi focal function – basically to be able to adjust the acuity of your vision to long and short distances. As a result your cornea will be a multi faceted surface, just like a shiny diamond that will be able to refract light in various angles.

At the present time, researchers concluded that this type of surgery is more likely to succeed in patients that are farsighted and have a low need to correct their near vision. While trying to adjust for various types of vision needs in prebyopia patients, researches debate the best ways to alter the cornea in order to achieve the best visual acuity for both near and long distance vision.

Hopefully as a result of their intense research, presbyopia lasik , also nicknamed “presby lasik” will soon become a safe viable solution for presbyopia patients.