Presbyopia is a common condition for people in their 40s and beyond that affects your ability to focus on nearby objects clearly. As you age, the lens of your eye becomes less flexible and cannot change shape to focus on different distances.

If you're finding it difficult to read small print, require extra light for clarity, or frequently experience headaches or eyestrain after close-up tasks, you might be dealing with presbyopia.

Your eye doctor can correct presbyopia based on the LASIK procedure steps using monovision. During a monovision treatment, your surgeon corrects your non-dominant eye to improve your near vision and adjusts the dominant eye to focus on far-away objects. After surgery, your brain automatically selects the image from the eye that provides the clearest focus depending on the distance of the object you're looking at. This adaptation allows you to maintain clear vision at various distances without the need for reading glasses. Nevertheless, you may still need to wear glasses if you need to focus for extended periods (such as when driving or concentrating on high-precision close-up work).

It takes a little time to adjust to having each eye focused at different distances. Talk to your eye doctor about a trial of monovision contact lenses. These mimic the effect of monovision laser vision correction so you can see if surgery would be suitable for you in the long-term.