What Is 20/20 Vision? You sit down in the optometrist's chair, read the letters, and get told your vision is 20/20. You leave feeling reassured. And for many people, that reassurance is the last time they think about their eye health for years. The problem...
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What Is 20/20 Vision? You sit down in the optometrist's chair, read the letters, and get told your vision is 20/20. You leave feeling reassured. And for many people, that reassurance is the last time they think about their eye health for years. The problem is that 20/20 is not a report card on the health of your eyes. It is a single measurement of one specific thing: how sharply you can see a standard letter chart at a set distance. It says nothing about your peripheral vision, your eye health, your night vision, or a range of conditions that can cause serious damage long before they affect that chart result. Understanding the real 20/20 vision meaning is one of the most useful things you can know about your own eye care. Because knowing what it does and does not tell you is what helps you make the right decisions about when and how often to have your eyes properly examined. The Patient Who Passed Every Test and Still Could Not Drive at Night At Clear Vision Optical, we see a version o
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