What is longsightedness, and can it be fixed?
In hyperopia, or longsightedness, the eye is shorter than normal. The light rays come together at a point behind the retina, and are therefore out of focus on the retina. In early life a longsighted person can compensate for this by contracting their ciliary muscle and accommodating. This ability wears out in all of us, but hits long-sighted people particularly hard. First they find difficulty seeing near objects (reading) and then they find that distant objects are also blurry. At this point long-sighted people depend on glasses for everything.
LASIK and Surface laser are used to change the shape and curve of the cornea in order to correct or reduce these types of refractive errors.
To schedule a consultation to correct longsight
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