Multifocal Contacts Types and Designs

About Multi Focal Contact Lenses

If you have presbyopia wearing multifocal contacts are one of the best options for correcting your vision. But how much is the vision improvement you can expect from the lenses?

An experienced eye doctor usually communicates about what you can expect from multifocal lenses during your contact lens fitting. He or she might say that your lens fitting is good, if you can perform about 80 percent of your daily activities well.

For example, your occupation requires you to see objects between reading distance and far distance. They are considered a good fit if you can read phone book and, at the same time, working on the computer comfortably.

The following lens designs offer you possibilities. Find out each strengths and weaknesses so that you know what to expect from multifocal lenses available in the market.
 

Multifocal Contact Lens Types

Based on how the power distributed, there are three different multifocal contact lens types: concentric, aspheric and translating designs. Concentric and aspheric designs are often grouped into a simultaneous design because in both designs the lens power is distributed gradually.



Which Multifocal Contacts Design Is Right for You?

Each multi focal design is suited to certain anatomical issues and vision correction needs. Sometimes one eye "fits" into one particular design or material, but the other eye may need a different design.

Multifocal lenses will not solve all of your vision needs. But the key here is the lenses should answer your main activities' vision needs. If you're looking for a perfect fit you may end up becoming a never satisfied patient.

So seek more info about bifocal or multifocal contacts to help you find one design that works for you. And then visit your eye doctor for a contact lens fitting.



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