State about the Latent squint disease

Latent squint is seen commonly as exophoria in infancy and presbyopic age and esophoria in childhood. Hypermetropes can have esophoria and myopes, exophoriThis type of squint can be accompanied by anatomical defects in muscle, fascia and ligament structure as well as organic muscular or nervous system diseases such as Myasthenia gravis. Most patients develop severe headaches, eye-ache, blurring of vision and lor intennittent diplopia with this condition. To diagnose latent squint a cover test, Maddox rod, Maddox wing, or a synaptophore can be used. The treatment for latent squint includes refraction, orthoptic treatment to increase musclet power and fusion range, and operative intervention.