A majority of the population wear eyeglasses, contact lenses, or some variation in between. For most cases, people wear glasses to correct their vision problems. To identify these issues, a routine check-up to your local optometrist is highly recommended. He or she will give you a series of visual tests and examinations, which will determine the level of your eyesight.
The most popular eye surgery today is LASIK surgery. It is efficient, fast, very gentle and with few complications. For most people the LASIK surgery can help them no matter if they are nearsighted, farsighted and have astigmatism.
The strength of reading glasses was originally based on the patient’s age. For a man of 30″40 years lenses of 2 degrees were used, for 70″80 years, lenses of 4 degrees. It wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century that glasses started to be issued by people who knew some basics about optics.