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Please advise if it's normal for one eye to not be able to see as good as the other?

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Asymmetry: Vision quite commonly is different between the eyes without corrective measures to make it symmetric. This becomes quite obvious when reviewing your eyeglass prescription. Just to be safe, if you R stating that your vision in 1 eye is newly changed from the other, then certainly an examination to rule-out problems is important. There are diagnoses that each eye may have that result in diff. visi

Dr Cremers agreed

Answered 11/15/2015

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