[Progressive lenses--a new possibility in sight for presbyopes].

Technological advances in the manufacture of the progressive lenses have made an effective and comfortable alternative in presbyopic correction. Nevertheless the small percentage of those patients are knowing and wearing them. The paper shown our clinical experience about prescribe Varilux progressive lenses at the 40 presbyopic patients. At the same time we try demonstrate the visual problems due that lenses, the difficult adaptation to this kind of spectacles and the degree of satisfaction of the subjects.