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Why is bifocal eyewear good?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The purpose of bifocals is to allow an individual to focus both near and far. Generally, an eyeglass prescription will be written for those nearsighted or farsighted. If you are nearsighted, the lens in the eye causes the focus to be in front of the retina and the person struggles to see far away because the lens is too long. To correct it, you would be given concave lenses in your eyeglasses. For farsightedness, you are prescribed convex lenses to correct the eye's short lens that causes the focus to be behind the retina and you struggle to see objects up close. Bifocals combines both types of lenses with the convex melded into the concave, allowing the individual to switch from a reading stance to viewing out.

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15y ago

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