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dimness of sight

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  • If the condition is detected early in life, and the best treatment is patching the good eye to allow the weak eye to develop normally and all the visual pathways to develop, if...
  • But as pummeled amblyopic kids everywhere know, the eye patch can take months to work, if it works.
  • The more comprehensive penalty achieved with the plano lens was hypothesized to force more use of the amblyopic eye.
  • In the combination group, the amblyopic eye was corrected to the same degree, while the sound eye had a noncorrective plano lens.
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