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When you look at those dots, I'm going to show you two choices,

and I just want you to tell me which makes the edges sharper and clearer for you.

Okay. Do those look clearer with one or two?

One.

Hey there, this is Andy Taggle,

in for Mary El Segara and reporting from the office of optometrist Melanie Langford here in San Diego, California.

When you think about eye health, this is usually the image that comes to mind.

Right? Sitting in a dark office and a big leather chair, two great big wheels of

lenses in front of your face making you feel like an owl and little rows of

letters across the room making you sweat. There's no way they put three zs in a

row, right? And seven or eight.

Eight.

Okay, perfect.

So you do not appear to have any astigmatism.

This part, the eye exam part of eye care is for the average healthy sided person

Pretty straightforward and in my opinion pretty cool. So you're near-sighted. Okay.

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