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Original Article

Treatment of Accommodative Insufficiency with Plus Lens Reading Addition: is +1.00 D Better than +2.00 D?

, BSc (Optom), , BSc, MSc, PhD & , BSc (Optom), Mphil, PhD
Pages 67-71 | Received 22 Jan 2010, Accepted 09 Apr 2010, Published online: 03 Jun 2010

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