Spectacle Wear Among Children in a School-Based Program for Ready-Made vs Custom-Made Spectacles in India
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Use of ready-made spectacles in school eye health programmes
The most common means of correcting refractive errors is with spectacles. Spectacles are prescribed and dispensed with corrective lenses that give the best visual acuity and are comfortable. Custom-made spectacles (i.e., made up for each individual) are more expensive, but they are essential in some cases, i.e., when a person requires astigmatic correction or needs diff erent power lenses in ea...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Ophthalmology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2168-6165
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.0641