About Astigmatism Bifocal Contact Lens

Bifocal Toric Contacts for Presbyopia and Astigmatism

Astigmatism bifocal contact lens is an option if you have astigmatism and want to continue wearing contact lenses as you reach forties. Or, if you're a monovision dropout of soft toric lens -- a lens that corrects astigmatism -- you may also be interested in bifocal contact lens for astigmatism.

Bifocal toric contact lenses correct for presbyopia as well as astigmatism. These lenses is generally a non-disposable type. There are some soft toric bifocal brands, but often you can find also an RGP lens for this type of prescription.

How Does Astigmatism Bifocal Contact Lens Work?

Toric bifocal contact lens can correct astigmatism as well as presbyopia. Here the design idea is blending toric lens that corrects astigmatism and bifocal or multifocal lens that corrects presbyopia.

In toric lens design, to keep the lens stable on your eye it is made heavier at the bottom. The mechanism prevents the lens from rotating on your eye. But in toric bifocal design it is more difficult to prevent the lens from rotating on your eye. Several devices that are being tried are successful in some people but not in others.

Combinations of myopia and astigmatism or hyperopia and astigmatism are common. But combination of presbyopia and astigmatism are more problematical. So, be patient if your bifocal contact lens fitting may even more difficult than your toric lens fitting.

Multifocal or Bifocal Toric Lens Brands

Two popular bifocal toric contact lenses are Cibasoft progressive toric from Ciba Vision and ultravue 2000t from Coopervision. Thanks to the design of the two bifocal toric contacts, there's a good chance you can still enjoy wearing a soft contact lens.

The cibasoft progressive toric features a double slab-off, front-surface, toric design combined with a center-near progressive adds on the back surface.

Ultravue 2000t multifocal toric lenses utilize advanced balanced progressive technology, an optics system that uses two different lenses that work together to provide great vision everywhere you look.

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