Hyperopia: Long-sightedness

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Hyperopia occurs when your eye is too short compared to the curvature (focusing power) of your cornea, or the cornea is less curved, so light focuses behind the retina. When younger, many hyperopic eyes can self-focus by utilising the “zoom” intended for reading, to compensate for the distance blur. As the eye ages, this “zoom” gets weaker, near vision becomes blurred and later distance vision becomes blurred as well.

So people with hyperopia often require reading glasses before their 40’s, and often require both reading and distance glasses (or bifocals) in their 40’s. Laser eye surgery can correct this by changing the shape of the cornea so that its focusing power is matched to the length of the eye. (See also Presbyopia below).