A Guide To Multifocal Contact Lenses

Arming yourself with the right information can make multi-focal contact lenses a breeze. Brush up on the best in the industry with this guide.It’s 4:45 PM at the end of a long day and in your mind you’re halfway out the door — until you see the chief complaint on your next chart. “55-year-old with decreased vision in their monovision contacts.” You picture your hands shaking as you hold loose lenses in front of an increasingly unimpressed patient. Sure, they can read the 20/20 line, but it’s a blurry 20/20 . . . Suddenly the end of the day doesn’t seem so near.While I chose to pick on monovision wearers — they’re an easy target — all presbyopic contact lens wearers should be included in the discussion on multifocal contact lenses. By offering improved depth perception compared to monovision and eliminating the inconvenience of reading glasses over single-vision lenses, the advantages of multifocal contacts lenses are easy for the patient to recognize. In fact, more and more frequently,...