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Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cataract & Refractive Surgeon
BMedSci BM BS MRCS MRCSEd MRCOpth FRCOphth MMedLaw PgD Cataract & Refractive Surgery

Your patient has a latent squint (phoria)

Latent squints are common. Assess how troubled the patient is. Community optometrists can fit prisms to spectacles to help with latent squints. If the community optometrist is unable to control the patient’s symptoms, refer routinely.