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So, you already have contacts to correct your near-sightedness. Thank goodness for that! You cringe when you look at your high school yearbook, with those huge glasses hiding your entire face. Now you're nearing the big four oh. It seems more like the big uh oh, though, when it comes to your eyesight. You can't read the paper without holding it out at arm's length, you have trouble with the menu at your favorite restaurant, and for some reason your secretary has started typing her notes in eight point font. Finally, you admit it; it's time for those dorky looking reading glasses. Time to look like your grandma, who was constantly looking for the glasses that were strung on a string on her neck. Or maybe not. Monovision contact lenses might be the answer for you.

What are monovision contact lenses? In a sense, it's the contact lens equivalent of reading glasses. When our eyes can't focus on small or close up objects, it's called presbyopia. Monovision capitalizes on our body's natural way of seeing to help us see both close up and far away. We all have what is called a dominant eye, or an eye that does most of the work for our distant vision. The other, or non dominant, eye, picks up the slack for our close up sight. So what eye doctors do with monovision contact lenses is to fit the dominant eye with a prescription that fits our distant eyesight needs, and the non dominant eye with a prescription that fits our near eyesight needs. It takes about two weeks for the brain to figure out what's going on, but after that both far and near vision is automatic.

Even people who are not nearsighted but who have presbyopia can still use Monovision contact lenses. The eye doctor simply prescribes a non powered lens for the dominant eye.

However, Monovision isn't for everyone. Vision clarity can sometimes be affected, as well as depth perception. Athletes for example, or other people who need excellent depth perception, and surgeons or other people who need very clear vision, might not be best served by using Monovision contact lenses. For most everyone else, though, it's a great alternative to bifocals or those goofy reading glasses your grandma was always reaching for.

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