Dominant Eye and Cataract Lens
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Hi Everyone,
Fresh off a consultation with my eye doc/surgeon, I was given a couple of tests to determine my dominant eye. I guess this factors in (not sure how) to what type of lens I might get. His assistant handed me a little fake camera and told me to take a picture. I did and used my right eye to sight the viewfinder. So she concluded my dominant eye was my right. However, a bit later when the doc saw me, he asked me to sight an imaginary rifle. In that case, I used my left eye. I'm a bit cross dominant in a number of things... I used to play hockey right handed.. I golf right handed...but I bat left handed.. I write left handed. So I'm not even sure which eye is dominant. Ultimately my question is.."How does eye 'dominance' factor into lenses? Say, for example, in the case of mono-focal lenses.. Would the dominant eye be the one that should get the distance vision lens in a mono vision strategy?
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Night-Hawk indygeo
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Try this test: hold your hand out in front of you with your thumb up. Sight an object 20+feet away with both eyes open and cover the spot with your thumb with arm outstretched and hold it there. Then close each eye separately, the eye you see thru where your thumb is still covering the distant spot is supposed to be your dominant eye.
Sue.An indygeo
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Night-Hawk Sue.An
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Di72082 Night-Hawk
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at201 Di72082
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If you are going to have cataract surgeries in both eyes in the near future, just have the right eye (which you think is the dominant eye) set for distance. You can't go wrong doing that.
Just allow enough time between the 2 eye surgeries to see the results of the first surgery to determine the best choice for the second one.
at201 indygeo
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2. In case of monovision or mini-monovision, it is claimed that it is better to have the distance vision in the dominant eye. However, it is not that big a deal to have it in the non-dominant eye. I have my right eye set for distance vision (I use monovision), but since it is not dominant all the time, in effect, I am using a non-dominant eye for distance many a times. (and I cannot feel the difference because of that).
indygeo at201
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Thanks for your reply! That's good to know there's not much difference ultimately. My apparently dominant eye is my right one and the doctor wants to set my left (cataract) eye to distance. We will address the non (or rather, slight) cataract eye, the right one, at some future point. My right eye is still good for reading so he feels I can get the mono-vision effect with only doing the left eye. However, if the degree of mono-vision is too much (ie. too much difference), we strategize that we can do the right eye with a lens perhaps set for some mid-distance perhaps to get the mini-mono-vision. I guess we'll see how this plays out.