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> Quoting Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >  To all you who have had LASIK surgery, do I understand you correctly that
> >  this surgery will not help with the age-related need for reading glasses?
>
> That is what my surgeon said, yes, but then I don't YET need reading glasses.
> The surgery corrects farsightedness (ie the need for reading 
> glasses) in people
> who already have it.

IF they need reading glasses because of far-sightedness (hyperopia: 
http://www.aoa.org/x1781.xml ). LASIK can correct the focal length of 
the lens.

 Age-related need for reading glasses is presbyopia 
(http://www.aoa.org/x1785.xml) and stems from a different process 
that a focal length correction won't help.
--

 Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
 http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/

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