For decades, eye care providers dedicated the majority of our attention to vision clarity.
With spectacles, contact lenses and refractive surgery, we aimed to bring our patients as close to 20/20 — or better — as possible, and we used best corrected visual acuity as the barometer of success. Vision comfort took a back seat to clarity and was almost an afterthought.
This paradigm has changed considerably with the expansion of digital device dependence and the emergence of digital vision syndrome. Pervasive reliance on smartphones and computers for work and school entails hours of