SIRS,-The attention of the Council of British Ophthalmologists has been drawn to the difficulty which the Services and the Ministry of Health are experiencing in obtaining spectacle lenses to supply their urgent needs, and it has been suggested that the situation could be helped by a simplification of the prescriptions supplied by civilian ophthalmic surgeons. LThe Council has considered the qu...

BACKGROUND Uncorrected Refractive errors are the most common cause of avoidable visual impairment in children worldwide. Importance of school screening of refractive errors are one of the most important initiatives outlined in WHO Vision 2020 targets for control of avoidable visual impairment in children. But the benefit depends on the compliance of the spectacle wear by children. PURPOSE To ...

Contact lenses do not significantly improve central vision as compared to spectacle lenses. I have never rehabilitated a highly myopic patient with subnormal vision by prescribing contact lenses as an optical aid, nor have I ever seen a patient so rehabilitated. My clinical experience confirms theoretical calculations that the effective magnification is not greater than 27 per cent. for a spect...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of amount of myopia, axial elongation staphyloma and type of optical correction on contrast sensitivity of high myopic subjects. METHODS Fifty-one patients (91 eyes) were selected on the following qualifications: myopia > or = 8 dpt and/or axial length > or = 26 mm, and visual acuity > or = 0.1 recorded through spectacle lenses. Cont...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between muscular asthenopia and eccentric ablation after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). METHODS Sixteen eyes of eight myopic patients whose muscular asthenopia was corrected by subjectively accepted spectacle prism after PRK, with visual acuity better than 0.8, were followed for 6 to 14 months. On the basis of preoperative and post-operative data an...

Minor differences in colour perception between pseudophakic, phakic, and spectacle aphakic eyes were identified by the Pickford-Nicholson anomaloscope and the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test. The results suggest that pseudophakic eyes are more sensitive to red and less sensitive to blue than aphakic eyes corrected with spectacles. Spectrophotometer measurements reveal that the Rayner-Pearce pos...