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Optometrists are only too familiar with the frustration that emmetropic patients experience when they reach their 40s. Clear vision that has never been given a second thought gradually starts to deteriorate at near, and the patient typically begins to have to reach for reading glasses. With increasing age comes an increasing dependency on spectacles. Many plano presbyopes attending for a refractive surgery consultation will cite their motivation for treatment is the relentless 'juggling' of reading glasses for close tasks.
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