Bifocal Contact Lenses

Tired of wearing eye glasses? Well… say goodbye forever to those eyeglasses that have been making you look older or, worse yet, like a nerd. Switch to new bifocal contact lenses and stop your suffering!

How Do Bifocal Contact Lenses Work?

Bifocal contact lenses provide two different viewing zones within each lens. One lens is to correct farsightedness; the other, nearsightedness. This cool technology allows users to experience normal, well-balanced vision with soft bifocal contact lenses.

Who Are Bifocal Contact Lenses For?

Bifocal contact lenses are primarily designed for people experiencing presbyopia, a condition wherein the lens of the eye loses its ability to bend and flex. It can no longer focus sharply on nearby objects. This condition affects almost everyone beyond the age of 40, to some degree.

Symptoms of Presbyopia:

Your eyes became fatigued after periods of close-up work.
You have difficulty changing focus from near to far with your vision remaining blurred for seconds or even minutes prior to clearing.
You tend to become sleepy after reading for short periods.
Your arms don’t seem long enough to hold reading material far enough away for you to see it clearly (relax, your arms haven’t gotten shorter.. you are just getting older like the rest of us).

Choices Are Available To Correct Your Vision

You could of course rely on the old, hassle-filled method of wearing eye contacts that correct your far vision and then constantly switch to eye glasses for reading or close-up work. In that case you would probably be wise to keep extra pairs of eye-glasses handy at home, at work and in your car, just in case.

Frustrations and inconveniences experienced by wearers of eye glasses are practically legendary.
Of course, all this could be avoided by switching to new bifocal contact lenses. Bifocal contact lenses don't just eliminate the inconveniences associated with eye glasses, they also drastically improve your appearance. At the same time, you can avoid the additional costs of having to own several pairs of eye glasses.

The other alternatives for correcting (not curing) presbyopia are bifocal eye glasses (which often have that ugly and obvious delineation in the lenses making you appear older than you’d like) and of course laser surgery, sometimes referred to as Lasik surgery.

Bifocal contact lenses come in three basic designs: simultaneous bifocal, alternating bifocal, and monovision bifocal. The first two types of bifocal contact lenses (simultaneous and alternating) simply refer to the sections on the lenses in which the far and near vision powers are located.

With monovision, the dominant eye is usually corrected for far vision; the other eye, near vision. In this design the eyes initially do not work together at all times. The brain has to adapt your visual system to make up the difference so that your vision can function properly.

As you might expect, there is not one single design of bifocal contact lenses that is perfect for everyone. Your eye care practitioner can help decide the best correction method for bifocal contact lenses for you based upon the specific measurements of your eyes and your own visual requirements.

Bifocal contact lenses are offered in basically two types: soft bifocal contact lenses and rigid gas permeable lenses (sometimes referred to as “hard” lenses for bifocals). The latest advances in soft contact lenses are the daily disposables bifocal contact lenses.

The Benefits Of Using Bifocal Contact Lenses

Improved vision at both near and far distances
Better peripheral vision (seeing objects clearly to the outside left and right of your field of vision).
Freedom from carting around eye glasses and elimination of that unsightly line you find in the lenses of all but the most expensive bifocal eye glasses.

Note: Bifocal contact lenses may not do the job for all sufferers of presbyopia. Be sure to work with your eye doctor. Discuss with him any problems you may be experiencing. By doing so he can determine if bifocal contact lenses are the right solution for your requirements. Remember that many people initially have difficulty adjusting to bifocal contact lenses. You may at first feel that your vision is not as clear and notice that it even changes as the contact itself moves around on your eye.

Alternatively you may experience ghosting or jumping of images as you switch your focus from far to near or vice versa. If these problems do not clear up you might be better served by a switch to monovision lenses so be sure to be candid with your eye doctor about your experiences as you adapt to your new lenses.

Popular Bifocal contact lenses

Acuvue Bifocal Lens by Johnson & Johnson

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