727 - Managing the Effects of Unequal Refractive Errors

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the properties of spectacle lenses and contact lenses and their effect on image size on the retina
• Identify spectacle characteristics that cause changes in magnification/minification/demagnification
• Discuss how vertical imbalance affects patient’s vision at the reading level
• List ways to correct vertical imbalance at the reading level
• Identify aniseikonia/magnification/minification conditions
• List ways of minimizing the visual complications of aniseikonia, using both spectacles and contact lenses