Living without reading glasses

The following procedures are generally suitable for treating presbyopia

Which method is suitable for your personal situation can only be determined after a comprehensive preliminary examination and a personal consultation with one of our Smile Eyes experts. The best thing you can do is just give us a call and make an appointment.

Multifocal lenses– without glasses
despite presbyopia

With what is known as a refractive lens exchange with multifocal lenses, the body’s own lens, which is often inflexible and has been weakened by age, is replaced by a new, intelligent artificial lens (multifocal lens). Routine treatment is similar to the cataract operation, which is carried out around 700,000 times per year in Germany alone.

Multifocal lenses - benefits at a glance

• Be free from glasses for life
• See clearly close up and at distance
• Gentle surgical procedure
• Outpatient procedure, around 10 minutes for each eye

Monovision – Laser eye surgery for clear vision without varifocals

Monovision, which is also known as blended vision, works on the principle of one eye taking care of long distance vision, whilst the other eye is corrected so it can look at things close up. The brain combines both impressions, so this enables a high degree of independence from glasses or reading glasses. You can tackle everyday activities again without glasses.

Monovision can be achieved either by laser eye surgery - known as SMILE monovision - or by implanting artificial lenses or replacing the lenses. Our Smile Eyes specialists can give you individual advice based on your age, your wishes and what type of defective vision you have.

How does presbyopia occur?

Presbyopia is caused by the eye lens increasingly losing elasticity as it ages. Today, modern lens and laser procedures make it possible for defects of an inflexible eye lens to be corrected so you can live without reading glasses or varifocals even if you’re over 45.