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Farsightedness (hyperopia)
Farsightedness (hyperopia) is a common vision condition in which you can see objects in the distance clearly, but objects nearby are blurry. If you're farsighted, your eye is probably too short from front to back, causing light rays to be focused behind rather than on the back of your eye (retina).
Treatment The goal
of treating farsightedness is to address the uneven curvature of the
cornea or lens that's causing your blurred vision. Treatments include
wearing corrective lenses and undergoing refractive surgery.
Corrective lenses
Contact
lenses.
A wide variety of contact lenses are available — hard, soft,
extended wear, disposable, rigid gas-permeable (RGP) and bifocal.
Ask your eye doctor about their pros and cons and what might be best
for you.
Eyeglasses.
An alternative to contact lenses is eyeglasses. Like contact lenses,
the variety of eyeglasses is wide.
Refractive surgery
LASIK
surgery.
Laser-assisted in-situ keratolmileusis (LASIK) is a procedure in
which an ophthalmologist uses an instrument called a keratome to
make a thin, circular hinged cut into your cornea. Your eye surgeon
then uses an excimer laser to remove layers from the center of your
cornea to steepen its domed shape. An excimer laser differs from
other lasers in that it doesn't produce heat.
Laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (LASEK) and photorefractive
keratectomy (PRK).
Instead of sculpting the inner layers of your cornea, your eye
surgeon uses an excimer laser to reshape the outer layers. After
removing the thin, protective layer of your cornea (epithelium),
your surgeon steepens the curvature of your cornea. The epithelium
grows back and conforms to the new shape of your cornea.
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