Understanding "Best Corrected Vision"

It is easy to get confused when faced with the many terms associated with vision and vision correction. One term that often throws people when first learning about LASIK and other refractive surgery is "best corrected vision."

Best corrected vision is the very best visual acuity that you can achieve with corrective lenses - glasses or contacts.

Prior to surgical vision correction the term might not have been so confusing, but now it is easy to assume that it could mean the best vision you can achieve through surgery, without wearing corrective lenses. For most people, the term may not ever come into play, but for those with very poor vision it is significant.

There is a limit to the amount of vision correction that corrective lenses can provide. There is also a limit to the amount of refractive error which can be corrected with surgery. For those with severe refractive error, a combination of refractive surgery, and then wearing corrective lenses, is the only chance of achieving good visual acuity.

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