Introducing a new solution for presbyopia

Need your glasses to read this website? Are restaurant menus a blur? Do you hold your arm out to read your mobile phone? Struggle to read the prices in the supermarket?

Then a new surgical procedure is going to open up a whole new world of freedom and vision.

Presbyopia is the most common eye condition in Australia, and affects many people over the age of 45. The symptoms include difficulty seeing near objects - such as newspapers and websites - while your long distance vision remains fine.

It’s a natural result of aging, as the lens in your eye loses its elasticity - its ability to flex to focus on close objects as well as far away ones.

Until now, the way to address presbyopia has been reading glasses, or Phacoemulsification where an ultrasonic device is used to break up and then remove a cloudy lens from the eye.

For those suffering from cataracts, there has been a solution that treats both the cataracts and the presbyopia, called Crystalens.

Now, however, for those with symptoms just of presbyopia there’s a new, simple and reversible procedure called AcuFocus.

How AcuFocus works

Try this experiment. Hold your hand up to one eye and close the other, then roll that hand into a tight fist. Slowly open your fist until there’s a small tunnel of light through the middle.

Look through that tunnel at the words on this page. Sharper, aren’t they?

Try it with and without your reading glasses, and with and without looking through your tightened fist.

That’s the remarkably simple idea behind AcuFocus.

The AcuFocus implant blocks unfocussed light, increasing what they call ‘depth of focus’. And dramatically improving near vision - the ability to read close up objects.

Of course, AcuFocus does not reduce your field of vision as your closed up fist does. In fact, your other vision is not affected at all. Thousands of tiny perforations in the lens allow fluids through, but not light.

Imagine if everything you looked at close up had the same clarity as your long distance sight. Now, you can imagine what life with AcuFocus could be.

Reversible

AcuFocus has an added benefit of being reversible. Acufocus is also available for patients who have had LASIK surgery.

There are some pre-conditions, however, where AcuFocus may have complications and risks. For specific medical details, please contact us.

What next?

Take the next step to visual freedom today!

If you would like to find out if you might be suitable for AcuFocus, or would like to discuss other options that may be available for you, please call us on 1300 NU EYES (1300 683 937), or book online for your free laser vision assessment.

AcuFocus is currently an Investigational device only. Limited by United States federal law to investigational use.