{"id":146,"date":"2013-07-15T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/?page_id=146"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T10:44:10","slug":"les-defauts-visuels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Visual defects: Myopia, Hyperopia, Astigmatism, Presbyopia<\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><a title=\"Correction of visual defects: myopia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/myopia\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>myopia<\/strong><\/a> is a <strong>vision disorder<\/strong> where the person sees objects <strong>blurry<\/strong> from a distance, because the lens is too curved, therefore too convergent, and the light rays meet in front of the retina. In other words, the myopic person sees less well from a distance than from near. This can be corrected by glasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery. 26% of the world's population is myopic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In <strong><a title=\"Correction of visual defects: astigmatism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-lastigmatisme\/\" target=\"_self\">astigmatism<\/a><\/strong>, the curvature of the cornea is not the same in all axes: instead of being round like a football, the cornea is flattened like a rugby ball.<br>\nThis leads to a distortion of images both from a distance and from near. Often myopia and hyperopia are associated with a certain degree of astigmatism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In <strong><a title=\"Correction of visual defects: hyperopia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-lhypermetropie\/\" target=\"_self\">hyperopia<\/a><\/strong>, the eye is too short and the light rays are focused behind the <strong>retina<\/strong>: we see blurry up close or even far away and this causes fatigue.<br>\nThe young patient does not notice it immediately because the accommodation efforts of his <strong>lens<\/strong> \u2013 still flexible \u2013 allow him to compensate for this hyperopia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>The <a title=\"Correction of visual defects: presbyopia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-la-presbytie\/\" target=\"_self\">presbyopia<\/a><\/strong>: Around the age of 45, we all become <strong>presbyopic<\/strong>.<br>\nThis presbyopia is linked to the loss of elasticity of the <strong>crystalline lens<\/strong>, it leads to a progressive loss of accommodation and involves wearing a reading correction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Myopes with presbyopia<\/strong> are often able to read without glasses, because to some extent the presbyopia compensates for the near myopia, but in distance vision, the person will always keep the same degree of myopia, despite the presbyopia.<\/p>\n<p>Visual defects can be corrected by laser surgery:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/myopie\/\">Myopia Correction<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-lastigmatisme\/\">Correction of astigmatism<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-la-presbytie\/\">Correction of presbyopia<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/les-defauts-visuels\/correction-des-defauts-visuels-lhypermetropie\/\">Correction of hyperopia<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les d\u00e9fauts visuels: Myopie, Hyperm\u00e9tropie, Astigmatisme, Presbytie La\u00a0myopie\u00a0 est un\u00a0trouble de la vision\u00a0o\u00f9 la personne voit les objets\u00a0flous\u00a0de loin, car le cristallin est trop bomb\u00e9, donc trop convergent, et les rayons lumineux se rencontrent devant la r\u00e9tine. Autrement dit, le myope voit moins bien de loin que de pr\u00e8s. Ceci peut \u00eatre corrig\u00e9 par des\u00a0lunettes,\u00a0lentilles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}