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Even without medical aids, there are tools to help you have the best vision possible.

By Margo White In Health

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12th December, 2013
Our eyesight can go wrong in lots of ways that can’t be corrected by glasses or contacts, and for which there is limited medical treatment. But even if the world has become a shade darker, there are tools and technologies that can help people make the most of the eyesight they do have. “People aren’t aware of what is out there,” says Naomi Meltzer, an Auckland-based optometrist who specialises in low vision. When an ophthalmologist says, “there is nothing more we can do”, that means nothing can be done medically or therapeutically. It doesn’t mean nothing can be done to help ...

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