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What are the main categories of bad vision?

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Refractive, patholog: Most bad vision is due to uncorrected need for eyeglasses. But vision can be impaired by inherited, infectious, traumatic and disease related changes in the eyes. Your ophthalmologist can sort this out for you.

Answered 7/30/2012

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