Eye dominance test - SwissLaser

The eye dominance test is performed for at least three reasons

First, to satisfy our own curiosity and then we can carry it out ourselves. How to do it? Ophthalmologists suggest:

Stand in front of any object or inscription
Observe the element , extend your hands and join the fingers of one hand with the other, so that a triangle is formed.
Keep your hands still, close your right eye first (maybe someone will shade it for you), then close your left eye.
The eye that saw the object is your dominant eye.

Grab two pens in your hands – one in each hand.
Set the pens one behind the other in a straight line in front of your eyes.
Close one eye – assess whether the pens are still aligned. Then close the other eye and evaluate the position of the pens in relation to each other.
The eye with which you saw the pens stay aligned is the DOMINANT eye.

Stand in front of any object or inscription
Observe the element , extend your hands and join the fingers of one hand with the other, so that a triangle is formed.
Keep your hands still, close your right eye first (maybe someone will shade it for you), then close your left eye.
The eye that saw the object is your dominant eye.

Grab two pens in your hands – one in each hand.
Set the pens one behind the other in a straight line in front of your eyes.
Close one eye – assess whether the pens are still aligned. Then close the other eye and evaluate the position of the pens in relation to each other.
The eye with which you saw the pens stay aligned is the DOMINANT eye.

An estimated 85% of the population has a dominant right eye for distance, but not everyone chooses the same eye for near and vice versa. 15% of people have a different motor dominance depending on whether they are observing an item near or far away. In a similar way, a test can be conducted to tell us which eye is dominant for close distances:

Second, eye dominance testing is performed on children as part of screening to determine lateralization, that is, the functional dominance of one side of the body in relation to the paired motor organs and sensory organs (arms, legs, eyes, ears). Knowing lateralization, it can be determined that a person prefers to use one of these organs, located on the right or left side of his body axis. The exception to this is fixed heterogeneous lateralization (crossed lateralization, bilateralization), which is referred to when there is dominance of motor organs and senses located on opposite sides of the body (e.g. right hand, left eye, right leg).

Third, an eye dominance test is needed as one of the diagnostic tests preceding monovision or any presbyopia correction when presbyopia, commonly known as farsightedness of old age, catches up with us. Monovision, which means correcting one – the dominant – eye for distance (the dominant eye is the eye you would put to the sight if given a gun), while leaving the other eye myopic, is an optical setting that seems strange to patients, to say the least.

Second, eye dominance testing is performed on children as part of screening to determine lateralization, that is, the functional dominance of one side of the body in relation to the paired motor organs and sensory organs (arms, legs, eyes, ears). Knowing lateralization, it can be determined that a person prefers to use one of these organs, located on the right or left side of his body axis. The exception to this is fixed heterogeneous lateralization (crossed lateralization, bilateralization), which is referred to when there is dominance of motor organs and senses located on opposite sides of the body (e.g. right hand, left eye, right leg).

Third, an eye dominance test is needed as one of the diagnostic tests preceding monovision or any presbyopia correction when presbyopia, commonly known as farsightedness of old age, catches up with us. Monovision, which means correcting one – the dominant – eye for distance (the dominant eye is the eye you would put to the sight if given a gun), while leaving the other eye myopic, is an optical setting that seems strange to patients, to say the least.

Which eye will be farsighted and which will be short-sighted is decided after a series of tests. In no way does it depend on the arbitrary decision of the doctor or patient. Before an ophthalmologist proceeds with monovision correction of presbyopia, he or she conducts a qualifying examination to see if the patient’s brain will accept the solution. In other words, it is checked whether the differential planned for the patient will be acceptable to him, whether he will be comfortable with it.