40+ need distance or reading

It's a fact of life that by the time all of us reach 50 our eye muscles just haven't got that oomph! any longer - and that's when we all need some help to read.

For anyone with normal distance vision it's just a simple prescription to magnify close objects (and at the same time blur the distance). If you wear distance glasses already then it's two pairs, bifocals or varifocals (multifocals) you need.

If reading help is needed and you wear Contacts people assume that's the end of Contact Lens wear - far from it!

Even though top specialists have been fitting them for over 60 years many people still don't realise that both SOFT & RIGID bifocal & varifocal contacts are made! 

Geoff Wilson, owner of The Contact Lens Practice, fitted his first BIFOCALS in 1966  however, because they require more skill and professional time to fit, many people never learn they exist.

So most Contact Lens wearers end up with a pair of 'granny half eyes' over their lenses.

At The Contact Lens Practice that's not the way we play it. We recognise that the last thing our patients want after having enjoyed years of spectacle free vision is to have to wear glasses again even if it's only for reading.

So what do we offer?

Both Flexible Oxygen Permeable and Soft Lenses can be made in many designs to correct both distance and reading vision - bifocals of varying designs as well as multifocals - even some to sleep in!

There are many standard 'off the peg' designs but, like so many of these they don't suit all corrections so we design lenses individually when necessary.

One of the most effective and simple ways we provide distance and reading vision with Contacts is 'mono-vision'. This involves using one eye for distance and one for reading - unusual yes but millions around the World find it works a treat - and it saves fitting time and the cost of more complicated lenses.
For more about Mono-vision and Multifocals see our Fact Sheets

Below is  a schematic diagram of how just one of the numerous Multi-focal designs currently available provide vision at all distances.....

....... unique with most Multifocal Contact Lenses is that the wearer can see close up regardless of whether they're looking up or down - completely different to specs when you can only see to read when looking down.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OVER 50 WEAR VARIFOCALS, OR READING & DISTANCE SPECS, COMPLETELY UNAWARE THEY COULD BE ENJOYING ALL THE BENEFITS OF CONTACTS - EVEN LENSES TO SLEEP IN FOR UP TO A MONTH!!

AS SPECIALISTS WE 'TEAR OUR HAIR OUT' WHEN PATIENTS TELL US THAT FRIENDS THAT HAVE ATTENDED OTHER OPTICIANS HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD THEY COULD SO EASILY ENJOY THE FREEDOM OF CONTACTS!!