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Could using updated/strengthened prescription glasses encourage progression of myopia?

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Dr. Alan Jackson
Dr. Alan Jacksonanswered
Addiction Medicine 32 years experience
No definitely not. : Current glass correction will only make you see better, to say it will cause a worsening of myopia means that that source of information does not know the principles of optics. Be carefully these sources have an alternate agenda to get money from you for a unproven program.
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