Monovision
Treating presbyopia to reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or contacts, requires leaving one eye untouched or refocused for long distance vision, and the other eye treated for near distance (reading vision) using Lasik or Conductive Keraplasty
It may seem difficult to get used to at first, but about six to eight weeks after the monovision procedure your brain is able to adjust to the different focusing ability of your eyes. A preoperative trial with contact lenses is a useful test to see if a patient will adapt to the intended refractive outcome.
Monovision can affect depth perception slightly. It is not recommended for people such as pilots, taxi drivers or anyone with a heavy vehicle license such as truck or bus drivers.
Conductive Keroplasty (CK)
Presbyopia, the most common eye condition in Australia, is the inevitable loss of near vision that affects everyone sometime after they reach the age of 40. Conductive Keroplasty is the first non-laser procedure for presbyopia.
Approved by the FDA, Conductive Keroplasty (CK) improves near vision in presbyopic patients by using radio waves to bring near vision back into focus. NearVision CK is only for people over the age of 40 who want freedom from their reading glasses.
A safe, minimally invasive procedure, there is no cutting and no removal of tissue. The procedure is performed in just under 3 minutes in the doctor’s office with only topical anaesthesia.
Radio waves applied in a circular pattern to the outer cornea tighten it like a belt and make the central cornea steeper, bringing near vision back into focus. The procedure causes little or no discomfort and vision improvement is almost instantaneous. Only one eye is treated to facilitate reading.
The increasing severity of presbyopia combined with the regression effect of CK means that this procedure may need to be repeated some years after the initial procedure. CK is a low risk operation allowing reading vision for a number of years before reoperation may be necessary.