Refractive Lens Exchange

Understanding Changes in Your Vision

Before the age of 40, common refractive errors such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism can cause our vision to be distorted due to the irregular shape of the cornea.

Over time, the natural lens of our eye loses its flexibility, making it difficult to focus on things up close. 

Presbyopia

At some point after the age of 40, the natural lens inside our eye starts to lose its flexibility, making it increasingly difficult to focus over a range of distances. This is known as presbyopia, a natural aging process of the eye that affects everyone at some point after the age of 40. Because of the increasing blurred vision up close, you may find that you need to use over the counter reading glasses or remove your glasses or contact lenses to see up close, or you may need to rely on monovision contact lenses, bifocals, or even trifocals to see well at all distances. Oftentimes, these changes begin to affect your active lifestyle.

You Have Options!

RLE (Refractive Lens Exchange) has become increasingly popular for patients over the age of 40, and who are experiencing presbyopia or even extreme farsightedness.  RLE works by replacing your eye’s natural lens with an advanced Lifestyle Lens designed to improve the clarity of your vision and eliminate nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, AND presbyopia.  This procedure provides a full range of vision – distance, intermediate, and close, while greatly reducing the need for corrective lenses, giving you vision to match your lifestyle.  Another benefit is that once you’ve had RLE, you will never need cataract surgery in the future!