Reading glasses,
made optional.
Somewhere in your forties, near focus starts to fade and the menu drifts to arm’s length. It’s called presbyopia — and there are now real ways to reduce, or end, your reliance on readers.
The natural lens
simply stiffens.
Presbyopia isn’t a disease — it’s a normal part of getting older. The flexible lens inside your eye gradually loses its ability to change shape, so focusing up close takes more effort and eventually a pair of readers. Standard laser vision correction sharpens distance, but it doesn’t address presbyopia on its own. The good news: a handful of presbyopia-specific approaches can give you a comfortable range of vision again — near, intermediate, and far.
Two roads —
the cornea, or the lens.
Presbyopia can be addressed on the surface of the eye with a laser — part of our cornea-based UltraView FREEDOM program — or inside the eye by replacing the lens, through our lens-based UltraView VISION program. Which path fits depends on your prescription, your eyes, and where you are in life.
A refined laser treatment that extends the depth of focus in each eye and blends the two into one continuous range — near, through intermediate, to far. It goes well beyond simple monovision while keeping depth perception largely intact.
Best for: most presbyopes wanting a natural, glasses-light range without an internal procedure.
One eye is set for distance and the other for near, and the brain learns to favour whichever it needs. We let you trial the effect with contact lenses first, so you experience it before deciding.
Best for: those who already wear, and comfortably adapt to, monovision contacts.
The eye’s natural lens is replaced with an advanced multifocal or extended-depth lens implant — correcting presbyopia from inside the eye and replacing the natural lens in a single step.
Best for: stronger prescriptions, or eyes whose natural lens is beginning to change with age.
More on RLE →Not monovision.
Blended vision.
Traditional monovision asks each eye to do one job and lets the brain switch between them — which only some people adapt to comfortably. PRESBYOND uses a wavefront-guided treatment to gently extend each eye’s depth of focus, then overlaps them into a shared “blend zone.” The result is continuous, binocular vision rather than a hard switch — which is why more people tolerate it than conventional monovision, with depth perception largely preserved.
You’ll experience the result before you commit.
Because adapting to blended vision is personal, we often let you preview the effect with contact lenses during your assessment. There’s an adjustment period after treatment, and near vision won’t feel identical to your twenties — we’ll set honest, clear expectations so the result fits the life you actually live.
An honest starting point.
Only a full assessment can confirm what’s right for your eyes — but here’s the general shape of the decision.
As with all our laser procedures, every candidate is first screened for dry eye at the U Dry Eye Institute — it protects both your comfort and your result.
Good to know.
Ready to put the
readers down?
Your assessment is a thorough, honest conversation about which presbyopia approach truly fits your eyes — laser blended vision, monovision, or a lens exchange. No pressure, no sales pitch.