Long Sightedness Treatment

Longsight is a vision disorder that gets increasingly common with age. Longsight is also known as farsight in the United States. The correct medical term is hyperopia.

If the patient suffers from long sight, it is the close vision that is first affected. Near objects become blurry, such as reading a newspaper or seeing a text or number appear on a mobile phone. This blur for near objects gets worse as the patient ages, and eventually even the far vision will also become blurry.

With long-sight the close vision will always be worse than the distance vision. The name longsight refers to the fact that it is the long sight which is always the better. The patient normally simply wears glasses for reading, particularly in the early stages. Later, the person will graduate to wearing varifocal glasses.

Laser surgery for long sightedness

Long sightedness treatment has developed greatly over the past 10 years. Using an excimer laser we can now accurately correct up to 6 dioptres of hyperopia, with or without astigmatism.

Longsight treatment with the LASIK procedure involves creating a very thin flap using a femtosecond laser, for example the advanced Ziemer laser, and then using the WaveLight Allegretto excimer laser to remove tissue in the outer part of the cornea, so steepening the central part. And more powerful lens, so producing the same effect as if the patient was wearing reading glasses.

At our Focus clinic, we prefer using Z-LASIK rather than PRK for the correction of hyperopia, as the results are more long-lasting and more accurate, so giving a great time free from glasses. Because longsight is a progressive condition which continues to get worse with age, is important for the patient to realise that excimer vision correction is not a permanent solution even though they will always retain benefit from having had the treatment. It may be possible to improve the vision further when the patient is older and has more longsight, with the second enhancement procedure.

With long sightedness treatment, it is these hyperopic patients that are the happiest after treatment. This is because higher degrees of hyperopia is a very unpleasant condition because vision is blurred at every distance. This compares to shortsight, where at least the near vision is in clear focus.

How much does long sightedness laser eye surgery cost?

Treatment for long sightedness laser eye surgery costs up to £4200 depending upon your prescription. You may wish to finance the surgery and you will be pleased to know we also offer finance options – please visit the pricing and finance section of this site for more information.

Is long sightedness laser eye surgery safe?

The procedure is extremely safe. Lasik for long sightedness has been around for many many years and millions have been treated with fantastic and safe results.