Use of Operating Telescopes with Multifocal Corrective Lenses

From Volume 31, Issue 5, June 2004 | Pages 305-307

Authors

R. F. Mosedale

BDS, MGDS MRD, RCS FFGDP, FDS RCS(Edin.)

Specialist in Periodontics, Carisbrooke Dental Practice, Leicester, Clinical Lecturer and Hon. Assoc. Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, Birmingham University Dental School

Articles by R. F. Mosedale

Elizabeth Farmilo

BSc, BSc(Hons), MC Optom

Farmilo Optometrist, Frances Street, Leicester LE2 2BE.

Articles by Elizabeth Farmilo

Abstract

Many older practitioners who wear spectacles with multifocal lenses for surgery work have been told that they cannot use flip-up magnifying telescopes with these owing to the difficulty of positioning them over the appropriate part of the lens and therefore must resort to normal bifocals. They thereby lose the advantages of clear vision at all distances which multifocals give. This article describes a way of overcoming this problem.

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