What is Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD)?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is Astigmatism?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is a Cataract?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is Farsightedness?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is Glaucoma?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is LASIK?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is Nearsightedness?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is an Ophthalmologist?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is Presbyopia?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
What is a Retinal Detachment?
This results in the inability of an eye to focus sharply (at a distance), usually resulting from a spoon-like (toric) shape of the normally spherical corneal surface. Instead of being uniformly refracted by all corneal meridians, light rays entering the eye are bent unequally, which prevents the formation of a sharp focus on the retina. Slight uncorrected astigmatism may not cause symptoms, but a large amount may result in significant blurring.
