Bifocal contact lenses

If you suffer from an eye condition called presbyopia you will need special eye correction most commonly using bifocal glasses. For many years people who needed bifocal correction were limited to only glasses, but over the past recent decade, bifocal contact lenses have become available; allowing people to look and feel their best! Bifocal contact lenses are now available for disposable and conventional use, and can be purchased as both rigid gas permeable and soft contacts.

Presbyopia is a condition that is primarily suffered by older persons, and usually happens to people once they reach their 40's. Your eyes age with your body, so you may find that you are having difficulty reading, and you hold your reading material at a distant in order to see the print. Other symptoms of presbyopia that you may experience include: eye strain, headaches and blurred vision.

Bifocal contact lenses work in the same respect as bifocal glasses. Each contact lens is designed with two features that correct both near-sighted and far-sighted vision. The bifocal contact lenses can be split across the middle exactly like bifocal glasses - the top being made for distance and the bottom for nearness. You can also obtain those bifocal contact lenses that are like progressive eye glasses. These contact lenses have different powers of perspective combined over the bifocal contact lens; this allows your eye to learn how to focus and distinguish vision elements on their own.

There are three basic bifocal contact lenses designs: Translating, Concentric and Aspheric. Each of these contact lenses provide a different way to correct your presbyopia vision. Translating bifocal contact lenses are made with the vision correction that is split in the middle of the contact lens. The near-sighted vision correction is on the bottom half, and the edge at the bottom is created flat and not round like the rest of the bifocal contact lens. This is so that when you blink, your contact lens will not shift and disrupt your vision. Concentric bifocal contact lenses are designed so that the near vision correction is located in the middle of the contact lens, and the distance correction is on the outer area of the bifocal contact lens. The final variety is Aspheric bifocal contact lenses. Aspheric contacts are designed so that the vision correction for distance and near sightedness is located near the pupil.

Bifocal contact lenses are a great invention and are designed by many contact lens companies. There are many options available to you. Both Acuvue and Focus are popular brand names for contact lenses, which offer different options for bifocal contact lenses. If you have presbyopia and are unsure if you should wear bifocal contact lenses, discuss with your eye doctor the best choices accessible to you; and find out his or her recommendations.

You don't always have to rely on the look of bifocal glasses - look your best with bifocal contact lenses!