A person with presbyopia has lost some or all of the ability to accommodate the power of the eye. If such a person’s distant vision is corrected with LASIK, will she still need reading glasses? Explain.

LASIK eye surgery is the most well-known and widely used laser refractive surgery for vision correction. LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileuses) is a procedure that can be used instead of glasses or contact lenses.

A unique form of cutting laser is used during LASIK surgery to accurately alter the shape of the dome-shaped transparent tissue at the front of your eye (cornea) to enhance vision.

Presbyopia is presented by the aging of the eye which results in the eye progressively losing the ability to focus on nearby objects, usually due to difficulty reading small letters forcing the person to move the reading material to a distance where it can read clearly.

These types of conditions can be corrected by prescribing glasses or through LASIK. The LASIK cornea correction procedure consists of emitting multiple bursts of finely controlled ultraviolet radiation by a laser of 193 nm wavelength, each laser is carefully controlled by a computer program at a rate of 10 bursts per second.

If a person's distant vision is corrected with LASIK, then you need glasses to read because distant vision is not used to read. For a reading of the text, the accommodation vision or near vision is used.

Therefore, after the LASIK procedure reading glasses are required.