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The macula is only one came to see Dr. Pino she wanted to keep small part of the retina; however, it is the her Tennessee driver’s license and was most sensitive and gives us sharp central prescribed bioptic telescopic glasses to vision. When it degenerates, macular read signs and see traffic lights farther degeneration leaves a blind spot right in away. Dr. Pino also prescribed microsope the center of vision, making it difficult or glasses for reading newspapers and impossible to recognize faces, read a menus in restaurants. book, or pass the driver’s vision test. As Elaine puts it, “My regular Nine out of 10 people who have glasses didn’t help too much – it was like macular degeneration have the dry form. looking through a fog. 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