Key Issues
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6.2KMyopia Onset and Progression in Young Adults: ‘It Happens’
sponsored content January 17, 2022 By Mark Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, FAAO We know a lot about parental history and myopia, but what...
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4.2KGMAC’s Social Media Campaign Broadened My Reach Educating Patients and Parents
January 17, 2022 By Rupa Wong, MD I receive so many questions daily from parents, even other physicians, who are worried about...
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1.3KThe 2021 Year in Review for Myopia Management
sponsored content January 3, 2022 By Neal Wolff, Vice President and Head of Marketing, Vylmua This year, awareness and understanding of myopia...
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1.9KTreating Both Pediatric Dry Eye and Progressive Myopia
January 3, 2022 By Judith Flanagan, PhD, Brien Holden Vision Institute Reduced prevalence of dry eye in children, fewer subjective symptoms, and...
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2.2KMyopia Management Begins with Lifestyle and Visual Hygiene Guidance
January 3, 2022 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA, FIACLE When should myopia management be implemented, and on which children? Progression...
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3.3KX-Cel’s In-Office Consultation Fosters Close ECP Relationships
sponsored content December 15, 2021 By Kristen Dalli, Managing Editor, Review of Myopia Management Based on feedback from ECPs who X-Cel had...
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3.0KMyopia Through the Eyes of Adults Experiencing Its Long-Term Effects
sponsored content December 15, 2021 With every diopter of myopic progression, a child has an increased risk of developing glaucoma, cataracts, retinal...
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2.5KPrescribing Orthokeratology for Adult Patients
sponsored content December 15, 2021 By Andrew D. Pucker, OD, PhD, FAAO Attracting adult orthokeratology patients simply starts by making them aware...
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4.3KExperiencing SightGlass Vision’s Spectacle Lenses
December 15, 2021 By Joe Rappon, OD, MS, FAAO, and Kylvin Ho, OD, FIAOMC As children continue to develop myopia at earlier...
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4.0KEnvironmental Influences on Myopia Development
sponsored content December 15, 2021 By Noel A. Brennan, MScOptom, PhD, and Mark A. Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD Outdoors, sunlight, near work, education,...
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3.2KCommitment to Myopia Management Creates Lasting Changes in Your Practice
December 15, 2021 By Ashley Tucker, OD, FAAO, FSLS, ABO Diplomate I always say that I am prescribing myopia management and not...
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Axial Length is the Target
December 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA, FIACLE The prevalence of myopia and high myopia is increasing in the...
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4.8KEmbracing the Latest Technology Can Build A Stronger Myopia Management Practice
November 15, 2021 By Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, FIAOMC More recently, we’ve shifted our attention to TikTok. It is the only...
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3.4KDangers of High Myopia
sponsored content November 15, 2021 By Craig Brawley, OD, FAAO; Kevin Chan, OD, MS, FAAO; Millicent Knight, OD, FAAO, FAARM, FNAP; Pamela...
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4.9KGrowth Curves of Myopia-Related Parameters to Monitor Chinese Children
November 1, 2021 By Dean Psarakis, B.Optom, Senior Research Optometrist, Brien Holden Vision Institute With increasing rates of myopia worldwide, particularly within...
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2.6KIs Myopia Prevalence Related to Outdoor Green Space?
November 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA There is substantial evidence indicating that environmental factors, including time outdoors and...
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2.8KMyopia Management in the Philippines: An International Perspective
November 1, 2021 By Carmen Abesamis-Dichoso, OD, MAT, FIACLE, FPCO, FAAO As it was then a novel idea, eye care practitioners and...
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3.7KWhich Environmental Factors Potentially Reduce the Progression of Childhood Myopia?
November 1, 2021 By Divya Jagadeesh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brien Holden Vision Institute Increasing time outdoors at least one...
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3.0KMyopia Management Practice Protocols for OrthoK
sponsored content November 1, 2021 By Azinda Morrow, OD, FAAO Although OrthoK fitting can appear complex, breaking down the practice protocol into...
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5.0KMy U.K. Experience with Myopia Management
November 1, 2021 By Nick Dash, BScHons (Bio), BScHons (Optom), MCOptom, Dip. SVA Myopia is more than diopters. It is more than...
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When to Stop?
November 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA Parents often ask myopia management clinicians, “How long will my child require...
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3.3KGlobal Evidence Links Digital Device Screen Time with Myopia
October 15, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA A major international study published in one of the world’s leading medical...
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5.6KThe OCULUS Myopia Master Simplifies and Improves Myopia Management
sponsored content October 15, 2021 By Stephanie Ramdass, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO, FSLS; eyecademy.ca, Ontario, Canada Whether you are new to treating...
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5.0KHow Has COVID-19 Changed the Epidemiology of Myopia?
October 15, 2021 By Joshua Foreman, PhD; Mohamed Dirani, PhD, MBA, GAICD; and Arief Tjitra Salim, BEng Almost two years since the pandemic...
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3.6KMyopia Management in the Trenches
October 15, 2021 By Vittorio Mena, OD, MS As health care practitioners, we need to be on the frontlines for children’s eye...
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Benefits Beyond Patient Outcomes
October 1, 2021 By Dwight Akerman, OD, MBA, FAAO, FBCLA There are several long-term eye health benefits of lowering a child’s ultimate...
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4.3KAccommodative Lag and Juvenile-Onset Myopia Progression in Children Wearing Refractive Correction
October 1, 2021 By Divya Jagadeesh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brien Holden Vision Institute This U.S.-based multiethnic study measured the...