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The condition is called presbyopia. It’s when you have difficulty seeing things close up like newspapers and menus, but do just fine when objects are far away.

“If you really stop and think about it, they are a real nuisance,” she said. “You’ve got to have the darn thing sitting on the top of your nose. …  I had one by the computer at work, I had one at home. I like gourmet cooking, so I had one in the kitchen. I must have had 10 or 15 pairs.”

“The way the Raindrop Cornea Implant works is by causing a slight change in the shape of the cornea, which allows light to be focused better for reading,” he said. “If something like this, a corneal inlay, can be approved by the FDA,  this will be bigger than Lasik in the ophthalmology community.”

“The cornea has to be split open, a little lens has to be put in,” he said. “Our concerns are, Will they move or migrate? Will they affect the corneal health?”

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