2. Presbyopia
• Eye lens loses elasticity and plasticity (the ageing of a
lens)
• Defect starting up to 40 years of the age of a man
• At the age of about 60 stabilizes
• It affects all people
• „Short arms“, postponing of work nearby
8. Glasses for reading
• Only for one distance
• For ametrops necessity to change glasses for different
distances
9. Bifocal, trifocal lenses
• Only 2 (3) distances
• Jump of picture
• Limited visual field
• Visible divide
10. Multifocal lenses
• Vision in all distances
• In periphery „swinging of picture“
• Narrow space for middle distance
• Longer accustoming time
11. Contact lenses
• Unsuitability for everyone
• Accustoming time
• High hygiene
• Wrong usage can lead to eye infection
• Expensive
12. Laser operation
• 1. Correcting of a former defect
• 2. Grinding of a multifocal shape tvaru to a cornea
• Intervention into an organism
• Postoperative result doesn´t have to be final
• Irreversible intervention
13. Monovision
• One eye in the distance and one eye near
• The pathient doesn´t have to get used
• Unaesthetic with glasses on
14. Intraeye lens
• 1. an eye lens is replaced with a multifocal lens
• PRELEX
• Difraktion streaks
• On the retina 2 pictures, in distance and nearby
• From the beginning sickness
• In the future an operation of katarakta won´t be in
danger
• It is possible to change a lens in case of
unsuitability
16. Intraeye lens
• Lens is put into eye with concentric circles
• Patient can see in all distances
• From the beginning sickness
• He doesn´t have to acclimatize to it…next operation
• If it doesn´t suit , it can be taken out
17. Putting off presbyopie
• American doctor William H. Bates at the turn of 19. and
20. century
• Practise eye exercises for 10-15 minutes every day
• Without glasses
• To practise exercises as far as we manage
18. Warming up
• Close eyes and and nod your head
• Forward and back
• From side to side
• All around
• 15 times in every direction