Vision · Age

Presbyopia: why reading up close becomes blurred with age

To see clearly up close, the crystalline lens — the eye’s internal lens — has to bulge in order to focus. With age it hardens and manages this less and less: this is presbyopia, normal and universal. Vary the age:

Sharp near visionamplitude — D · 30 years

The crystalline lens—

Flexibility of the crystalline lens with age ciliary muscle crystalline lens

Reading a phone at 35 cm

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The nearest reading point—

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Educational diagram — Dr Moïse Tourabaly, ophthalmologist. For information purposes; it does not replace an examination.