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"Professor Dan Reinstein explains how Laser Blended Vision can help people with age-related near vision loss (presbyopia)"

Professor Reinstein endorses <em>Laser Blended Vision</em>

Do you need reading glasses?

Discovering that you need reading glasses - even bifocal reading glasses - can be something of a shock, especially if you've always had good eyesight. But the fact is, everyone's vision begins to show signs of deterioration after 40.

Why you need reading glasses

It is at this stage of life when the lens of your eye begins to stiffen. At the same time, the muscles that shift your focus between near and far become weaker. Known as presbyopia, the classic sign is when you begin to hold books or newspapers further and further away, until your arm isn't long enough for you to focus. It is at this moment that you will realise that you need reading glasses.

Unfortunately, many laser eye surgery clinics reject patients over 40. That's why so many people are thrilled to find that the London Vision Clinic has pioneered a new laser technique called Laser Blended Vision, which counters presbyopia.

Escaping reading glasses

Using laser surgery, we can adjust each eye in different ways, increasing the depth-of-field of each eye to allow for both near and distant vision. For most patients, this means they can reduce their dependency on those infuriating reading glasses, bifocals or varifocals.

Of course, not everyone is suitable for laser eye surgery, and there's only so much we can do to assess you online. For a proper assessment of your suitability, talk to one of our Patient Care Coordinators on 0800 587 4705 to book an initial, no-obligation assessment. You can also complete our quick online enquiry form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

We treat various eye conditions at the London Vision Clinic so find out more about your condition and how we can treat it by selecting your eye problem from the list below:

Our ophthalmic surgeons are renowned for delivering excellent laser eye surgery results. Read more about what they have done to help other patients just like you.

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What our patients are saying

When my arm was no longer long enough for me to read a magazine or newspaper, I knew it was time to invest in some glasses! Of course the situation did not improve and I was always forgetting to put them in my handbag. I could no longer read price tags and there were many times when I thought I had bagged a bargain only to find, when I went to pay, there was an extra nought on the end and I was too embarrassed not to buy it! Supermarket shopping was hell, I could never read the weights or check ingredients. Many times I had to buy a pair of the store's reading glasses to do my shopping! My family would laugh at me because I had a pair of glasses in every room, so I could check a recipe or the oven temperature, to check the times of my favourite programmes and even to check if my eye make-up was okay! Worst of all, being keen on going to the gym, I could no longer read the instructions or set up the programme I wanted. And glasses in the gym were just hopeless. There had been many embarrassing moments in restaurants when I had forgotten the glasses and had to ask someone to read the menu for me. The dreaded day came when the optician prescribed varifocals - either that or carry two pairs of glasses!

Only six hours after the procedure, whilst making myself tea, I glanced across the work surface and realised that I could actually read the newsprint without my glasses, I could not believe it. Life just got better and better, no more searching for lost glasses when shopping, no more embarrassing moments in restaurants. Being able to watch television and seeing detail - but best of all being able to programme the machines in the gym! Thank you so much for giving me back 20/20 vision and for taking 20 years off my life. - Adele N., Fitness Trainer

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