Parents' influence on the treatment of amblyopia in children.

Amblyopia in children is a great problem that has to be identified on time and treatment initiated as early as possible to achieve optimal therapeutic result. Therapeutic success depends greatly on the children's parents' collaboration. It was the reason for us to embark upon this study to evaluate the parents' role in amblyopia treatment and their influence on the final therapeutic result.

[Automatic refractometer in the evaluation of eye refraction in children].

Recent publications state that automatic refractometer is more precise than retinoscopy. The purpose of this study was to determine if there is significant difference in refractive values obtained by retinoscopy and by automatic refractometer. We examined 39 children (78 eyes) aged between 4 and 6 years.