1 When asking about comfort of lenses, which of the following approaches might elicit the most useful response?
Answer: Ask the patient to rate comfort on a scale of 1-10 for different times of the day and duration of wear.
A score rating is useful, allowing a quality judgement, and also multiple ratings for different times helps build a profile of comfort.
2 Which of the following is unlikely to be a cause of near vision difficulties in contact lens wear?
Answer: Increasing myopia.
Uncorrected myopia enhances near vision. For this reason, full distance correction of myopia in the very early stages of presbyopia is often resisted by patients.
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