Vision & Age
Correct Your Vision
Looking good is an important part of our lives. We wear the latest fashions. Stay in shape. Even have cosmetic surgery. And our eyes are no exception.
Looking good, seeing well
The verdict is in: People look better without glasses. In a survey sponsored by Bausch & Lomb, more than three times as many of the adults surveyed thought that women looked better without glasses and more than twice as many of the adults surveyed thought that men looked better without glasses.
Maybe that is why, increasingly, people are wearing contact lenses or having laser surgery to correct their vision.
Bye-bye reading glasses
As you age, the muscles of the eye become less flexible, and have a harder time focusing on objects that are close. The condition is called presbyopia and it happens to nearly everyone. Bausch & Lomb's PureVision® Multi-Focal contact lenses allow you to stay in your contacts instead of moving to reading glasses or bifocals.
How contact lenses work
A contact lens is a hydrophilic (water loving) disc that floats on your cornea. There are dozens of options. Like prescription glasses, a contact lens is specifically shaped to focus light into the retina of your eye (and to fit your eye). But because it covers your cornea, it actually corrects your entire field of vision (unlike glasses, which you can see over and under). Contact lenses float on the tears that bathe the eye when you blink so you want to keep your eye hydrated and well-moisturized when you're wearing contact lenses.
Considering laser surgery?
Typical vision problems, such as being shortsighted or astigmatic, occur when either the eye or the cornea is not perfectly shaped. Laser surgery permanently changes the curve of the cornea, improving or correcting the eyes' focus. This reshaping can be done at the same time as surgery for corneas and other eye problems. Bausch & Lomb makes a range of innovative surgical products used for this and other surgical procedures.
