How does eyeglasses correct vision problem?

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• Gabriel peters

  05/03/2012

  Eye glasses work in the same manner whether they are for nearsightedness or farsightedness. The eye glass lens is curved so that it bends the light rays that hit your eyes so you can see images clearly. Nearsighted individuals cannot clearly see things that are distant. This happens because the light rays come into focus in front of the retina. Farsighted individuals have the opposite problem. The shape of their eyes causes the light rays to come into focus behind the retina, causing things that are near to them to be out of focus. Some people have blurry vision due to an astigmatism, or a condition where the curvature of the eye is irregular, creating a second focal point within the eye. All three of these common problems can be corrected with glasses. Source:http://www.glassescrafter.com/information/how-glasses-correct-vision.html

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• carminerobert

  05/03/2012

  People who have vision problems can't let the light focus directly on the retina. They either focus in front of the retina or behind the retina, which makes the image blurry and then you can't see them clearly. However, eyeglasses are used to change the angle that light gets into the eye so that it is focused on the retina correctly.

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