One eye is +1.5 and the other -1.5 so the correction is not large. The difference (+1.5 - (-1.5)) of 3 does fall below your recommendation of 4.00. Everyone agrees, even her, it is weird!
Thanks for clearing up what was meant by "Aniso". My daughter is old enough to go by herself but not assertive enough to question a doctor. On Dec 23, 9:31 am, Marc <[email protected]> wrote: > This is referring to the fact that your daughter's prescription is > different for each eye. I'm curious as to what her prescription is? > Depending on the difference, you might be better off going to an > optician for the lenses and maybe ordering just the frame online. If > it's over 4.00 diopters difference, you definitely want to go to an > optician. And generally people with a significant amount of > anisometropia tend to do better with contact lenses, so you might want > to look into those for your daughter. > > "Match base and center" is the optometrist's recommendation that the > base curve of each lens and the optical center be the same - sometimes > these are set differently for each lens by the optician based on the > level of anisometropia. > > Marc > JustEyewear.com > > On Dec 23, 11:14 am, mikey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My daughter had her eyes examined and came back with the typical > > prescription and some extra info. > > At the bottom it said: > > Recommendations: > > Aniso match base and center > > AR coat > > > I can figure the AR coat means anti-reflective. > > > What does Aniso match base and center mean? Aniso might be short for > > anisotropic. I read the definition of Anisotropic but that didn't > > help. -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en
