Monovision planning not always tied to eye dominance

NEW ORLEANS — Determining the dominant eye should be one part of monovision planning but not the deciding rule on eye assignment, according to a speaker.
In a presentation at Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Jay S. Pepose, MD, PhD, said most surgeons were taught to identify the dominant dye and set it for distance when planning refractive surgery.
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“That assumes that baseline dominance should determine eye assignment and that it stays informative once asymmetric blur is imposed,” he said. “So, I want to ask the question: Is the