What is the maximum myopia that contact lens can correct to 20/20 degree?

What is the maximum myopia that contact lens can correct to 20/20 degree?


is it -3.0 or -3.5 or 4.0?

Contact lenses can come in very high pescriptions, many companies make
them in the -10 to -12 range and ive seen special orders even higher
than this. Also keep in mind due to vertex distance, -12 contacts
correct you as much as -15 glasses. 20/20 has to do with your optics.
Some people arent correctable to 20/20, this is very common for higher
myopes, especially with glasses which minify. I am a -5 and my glasses
makes things smaller so I cant see 20/20 its too small to be readable.

Spockie <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>What is the maximum myopia that contact lens can correct to 20/20 degree?
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>
>is it -3.0 or -3.5 or 4.0?

I believe it was Larry Bickford's turn to lock up last night.

Larry? Did you leave the door open?? <g>
--
Live simply so that others may simply live

Spockie wrote:

> What is the maximum myopia that contact lens can correct to 20/20 degree?
>
>
> is it -3.0 or -3.5 or 4.0?

None of the above. If the eye is otherwise healthy, there is no
theoretical maximum of myopia that cannot correct to AT LEAST 20/20 with
contact lenses.

w.stacy, o.d.

In article <p%frf.37201$(E-Mail Removed)> ,
William Stacy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Spockie wrote:
>
> > What is the maximum myopia that contact lens can correct to 20/20 degree?
> >
> >
> > is it -3.0 or -3.5 or 4.0?
>
> None of the above. If the eye is otherwise healthy, there is no
> theoretical maximum of myopia that cannot correct to AT LEAST 20/20 with
> contact lenses.


I believe that I was once -12D. Of course, believe it or not, some
people need contacts who aren't even myopic. Back when they did
cataract surgery differently, some people needed major plus contacts. I
think that it was way more than 12D.

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

"None of the above. If the eye is otherwise healthy, there is no
theoretical maximum of myopia that cannot correct to AT LEAST 20/20
with
contact lenses."


Thats true, but very large amouts of myopia is not normal and often
pathalogical so alot of very high myopes never get 20/20, especially
not with minifying glasses. Still contacts will make one big, big
difference in how you see

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Neil Brooks <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Larry? Did you leave the door open?? <g>

Open just a crack, and only once every week or so. When the "killed"
number is over 20% of the total posts, I simply mark them all "read"
and go away.

Just seems like there are more important things to do these days.

See y'all later. Hope the fog lifts soon.


LB, O.D>