To decrease the need for reading glasses, the technique of creating blended vision may be helpful. With NV LASIK, the doctor fully treats one eye (usually the dominant eye) for distance, and the other eye for near. This leaves one slightly nearsighted eye for good near vision without glasses. Blended vision can help you maintain reading vision in one eye to avoid total dependence on reading glasses. With NV LASIK, you must often give up some distance sharpness. A weak pair of glasses may be helpful at times for driving. Near glasses may be needed at times for extended or difficult reading.

Blended vision is a slight compromise of both distance and near vision. Depth perception is also affected. For people with high visual demands like sports or constant near work, we recommend full distance correction with glasses for reading. NV LASIK is reversible, and additional laser treatment can usually bring that eye to distance correction, if desired.