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Anatomy of the Eye and Vision Errors

Recent advances in refractive surgery are designed to permanently reduce or eliminate the need for corrective eye wear to see objects clearly. Today, more than 3 million corneal refractive procedures are performed worldwide each year. Presently, more than 100 million patients wear contact lenses for correction of their refractive errors.

To better understand refractive surgeries, one should understand how a perfectly normal eye (20/20) focuses light and what are different types of refractive errors? Let us first understand the main components of eye.

The article by Union City Eye Correction Surgeon Shobha Tandon, MD covers the anatomy of the eye and common refractive errors such as cataracts, near and far-sightedness. To read more, please click here.

Labels: anatomy of the eye, dr. tandon, vision problems

 

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