Results of monovision correction in bilateral pseudophakes

We performed a retrospective study of the postoperative use of glasses in 100 patients with bilateral posterior chamber implants. Patients' vision had been corrected with one emmetropic eye and one myopic eye for simultaneous distance and near vision without glasses. The number of patients wearing bifocals preoperatively declined by half with this technique. Postoperatively, 11% of patients wore glasses out of habit, even though their visual acuities were equivalent to those of the 14% who subjectively needed no correction after surgery. The results of the study and the advantages of this monovision method of optical correction in bilateral pseudophakes are discussed.