{"id":36964,"date":"2023-11-10T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/do-i-need-a-prism-in-the-lens-find-out-all-about-ophthalmic-prisms\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:15:33","slug":"do-i-need-a-prism-in-the-lens-find-out-all-about-ophthalmic-prisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/do-i-need-a-prism-in-the-lens-find-out-all-about-ophthalmic-prisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need a prism in the lens? Find out all about ophthalmic prisms!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"36964\" class=\"elementor elementor-36964 elementor-33298\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a14e50b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"1a14e50b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1cd2d08 sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"1cd2d08\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f53c708 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f53c708\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"p1\">Prisms are placed in ophthalmic lenses for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For aesthetic reasons to make the lenses more balanced in terms of thickness.<\/li>\n<li>To compensate for ocular deviations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\">Prisms are used in all progressive lenses, the use of prisms in these lenses aims to balance the thickness of the lenses so that one area of the lens is thick and the other is thin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As the prisms deflect the light, they are also used to correct the ocular deviations mainly in those that cause diplopia, the individual sees two images of a single object, in some situations we can make the images coincide with the application of the prisms, and the patient sees only one.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisms are placed in ophthalmic lenses for two reasons: For aesthetic reasons to make the lenses more balanced in terms of thickness. To compensate for ocular deviations Prisms are used&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[306,300,305],"class_list":["post-36964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lenses","tag-diplopia-en","tag-lenses","tag-progressive-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36967,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36964\/revisions\/36967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oftalmedangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}