Presbyopes in Your Practice
Assessing the Design of PureVision Multi-focal vs. Monovision
Multifocal vs. Monovision
- Myth #1 - Monovision is the best place to start
- Myth #2 - Fitting monovision takes less chair time
- Myth #3 - Patients adapt to monovision more easily
- Myth #4 - Multifocal lenses compromise visual quality
- Myth #5 - Patients won't pay more for multifocal contact lenses
- Fitting Multifocals on a Monovision Patient
- Clinical Outcomes
- Assessing the Design of PureVision ® Multi-Focal vs. Monovision
PureVision® Multifocal lenses
- Wide-intermediate power profile delivers outstanding vision in the 16- to 48-inch range
- Independence from reading glasses
- Long-term solution - patients can keep same modality as ADD needs increase
- Maintains binocularity, improves depth perception and visual outcomes
- Center-near aspheric design enables natural transitions near to far
Monovision
- Compromised intermediate vision
- Occasional reliance on spectacles for mid-range vision (sports, computer work)
- Short-term correction - refits required as distance and ADD disparity increases
- Diminished binocularity, depth perception, and night vision
- Uses non-dominant eye for near and dominant eye for distance
