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How to throw away your reading glasses?

Do you want to throw away those reading glasses? Want to regain the sight you enjoyed in your youth? Want to get more out of life?

Now you can, with simple, fast, and proven treatment from PersonalEYES. In fact, 99% of our patients no longer need glasses or contact lenses after surgery.

So, what causes sight issues, and how does surgery help?

The human eye can be compared to a camera with a focusing 'lens system' at the front and a light sensitive 'film', the retina, at the back. The focusing system consists of two parts: the cornea, which is the clear window over the coloured iris, and the lens, which is just behind the pupil.

A common issue as we get older is called Presbyopia.

Presbyopia is a condition that causes the natural lens of the eye to become less flexible, and reduces the eye’s ability to switch between one focal point and another. This becomes more noticeable with age, typically affecting vision by middle age. By age 50, almost everyone has issues with near vision.

Imperfections in the focusing power of the eye are called refractive errors. There are three primary types of refractive errors: myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.

Myopia is a common refractive error, affecting one in five Australians. Myopia is the medical term for nearsightedness. People with myopia see objects more clearly when they are close to the eye, while distant objects appear blurred or fuzzy. Reading and close-up work may be clear, but distance vision is blurry.

Most forms of myopia can be managed with corrective lenses. Surgery is available to permanently correct some forms of myopia.

Hyperopia is a condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It results from the eyeball being too short from front to back, causing images to be focused behind the retina. Hyperopia is also referred to farsightedness, or hypermetropia.

Astigmatism usually occurs when the front surface of the eye, the cornea, has an irregular curvature. Astigmatism is one of a group of eye conditions known as refractive errors. Refractive errors cause a disturbance in the way that light rays are focused within the eye.

Astigmatism often occurs with nearsightedness and farsightedness, conditions also resulting from refractive errors. Astigmatism is not a disease nor does it mean that you have 'bad eyes'. It simply means that you have a variation or disturbance in the shape of your cornea.

To find out whether surgery can help you throw away your glasses, make a no obligation appointment, today.