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© 1999, 2000, Mounir Bashour

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GLASSES
PROGRESSIVE MYOPIA
PROGRESSIVE HYPEROPIA
ASTIGMATISM
ASTHENOPIA

1. EXACT Hx READING VS DISTANCE VS ASTHENOPIA VS PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT VS COSMESIS

2. EXAMINE NEW AND OLD GLASSES IN LENSOMETER.  MAKE SURE NO PRISM.

3. TEST PATIENT FOR PHORIAS AND TROPIAS

4. REREFRACT AND CYCLOPLEGIC REFRACT

5. CHECK OPTICAL CENTERS VS PUPILLARY CENTERS

6. CHECK POSITION OF READING SEGMENTS

7. CHECK PHYSICAL FIT

8. CHECK IF PLUS CYLINDER IN OLD GLASSES USING GENEVA LENS CLOCK (GLC)

9. CHECK TO SEE IF CHANGE IN BASE CURVE (GLC)

10. RULE OUT DRY EYES

11. CHECK VERTEX DISTANCE

12. CHECK PANTOSCOPIC TILT

13. LOOK FOR DIPLOPLIA IN DOWNGAZE

14. CHECK BIFOCAL ADD STRENGTH TEST IT

15. CHECK FRAME SIZE MAKE SURE NOT LARGE

16. DO A TRIAL FRAME TEST

 

ALTERNATIVE:

Frame weight

Appearance

Improper refraction

Improper dispensing

Improper vertex distance

Improper pantoscopic tilt

Change from plus to minus cylinder

Inappropriate optical center true PD different from mechanical PD induced prism

Image jump or displacement from new bifocal

Induced phorias

Meridional magnification – tilting, change in astigmatic correction without adjustment

 

 

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