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Contact lenses can prevent near­sightedness from getting worse.

True        False

False. Some people have been led to believe that wearing contact lenses will permanently correct nearsightedness,

so that eventually they won't need either contacts or eyeglasses.

There is no evidence that wearing contact lenses produces a permanent improvement in vision or prevents nearsightedness from getting worse.

Eyes can be transplanted.

True        False

False. Medical science has no way to transplant whole eyes. Our eyes are connected to the brain by the optic nerve.

The optic nerve is made up of more than one million tiny nerve fibers. This nerve cannot be "reconnected" once it has been severed. Because of this, the eye is never removed from its socket during surgery. The cornea, the clear front part of the eye, has been successfully transplanted for many years. This corneal transplant is sometimes confused with an eye transplant

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