When eyecare practitioners (ECPs) think about fitting toric lenses on their patients, they each have a threshold for how high of a cylinder correction a patient needs before going to a toric lens. Whether they select a toric lens and there is lens rotation or a lens is not locking in where it needs to be, their patients’ vision fluctuates or is blurry. However, if patients don’t have toric lenses, they will have blurry vision at all times. Many patients survive just fine with a lens corrected with a spherical equivalent; others notice the blur and require higher amounts of cylinder. Consider patients who have 1.00D of cylinder; for many practitioners, this can be corrected with a spherical lens.
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