Lifelong vision correction plan has value for all involved

I like the concept of lifetime management of refractive errors. I have a few thoughts as to how this might be accomplished.
First, the patient has to be under an eye doctor’s care for a lifetime for their refractive error to be managed. Today, in the United States, that would be an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. The childhood epidemic of progressive myopia suggests to me that all children should have a baseline screening for refractive error at an early age, preferably preschool. The natural progression of refractive error is from (Read more...)

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