(1) Contact lenses can be used most advantageously to correct myopia, but can also be used for hypermetropia and corneal astigmatism.(2) Apart from testing the eye, they supply booklets detailing eye care with particular reference to refractive errors such as myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism.(3) Photo refractive surgery is another available treatment for hypermetropia , as is laser eye surgery.(4) Doctors need to be able to distinguish hypermetropia from myopia.(5) Just as people have myopia (short sight) and hypermetropia (long sight), Aberropia is another refractive error.(6) The medical name for long-sightedness is hypermetropia .(7) In the Western world some 15-20% of people are myopic and 40-50% hypermetropic , but in Japan and China 50-70% are myopic.
