Bifocal Contact Lenses: To Be or Not to Be?

In general, bifocal contact lenses serve people above 35 who cannot read close by. The problem is called presbyopia. It is age-related – eyes lose their ability to focus things at short distances. One zone of bifocal contact lenses corrects your sight far away; another zone corrects your sight at short distances.

Hard bifocal contact lenses entered the market in the early 60s, but they did not gain ground. The thing is that bifocal contact lenses were hard to fit, and they required long adaptation period. At present, hard bifocal contact lenses are made of air-proof materials and number many kinds.

Soft bifocal contact lenses are comfortable at use, but their property to correct long or short sight leaves much to be desired.
There is no notion of an ideal bifocal contact lens, no matter whether it is hard or soft. There are no ideal bifocal glasses as well. They all have their pros and cons. To avoid a mistake in bifocal contact lenses choice and to overcome their constraint in use, some professionals resort to the so-called monovision strategy. This means that a patient can wear different bifocal contact lenses in different eyes at a go. Click to continue...