May 2, 2024
CANADA — EssilorLuxottica’s Stellest spectacle lenses for myopia management will be available in sun tints in Canada starting on May 7, 2024. The new sun tints provide children and teenagers with the option to continue to wear Essilor Stellest lenses for outdoor activities, offering protection from sunlight. Alongside this launch, the company also announced that the Essilor Stellest lens, the clear spectacle lens for myopia management, will be available in a wider prescription range globally, to meet the needs of more myopic children and teenagers.
The Essilor Stellest lens two-year clinical trial results show that there is greater efficacy when the lenses are worn more than 12 hours per day.*1,2 The lenses will be available in several vibrant colors, and this tint selection gives the wearer a greater pairing choice when choosing frames. Essilor Stellest lenses with sun tints will also come with a Crizal Sun XProtect coating, an all-new protective coating that is two times stronger at protecting against scratches and smudges.
EssilorLuxottica will also launch the Essilor Stellest lenses extended range, which aims to meet the needs of more myopic children and teenagers. The extended range is for the clear spectacle lenses, catering to patients with a myopic spherical equivalent refractive error.§ The rest of the features of the lens remain the same, and the extended range applies only to the clear spectacle lens for myopia management. The extended range includes:
- SPH: [+2.00¶; -12.00]
- CYL: [0.00; -4.00], depending on sphere
- ¶SER ≤0 for sphere [0.00; +2.00]
“We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Essilor Stellest lenses with sun tints so that children and teenagers can continue to enjoy the benefits of outdoor time and protect their eyes from sunlight. The idea of encouraging children to spend time outdoors has already been widely accepted within the myopia community. So, with this new option, we hope that children will continue to wear their Essilor Stellest lenses outdoors, as it is necessary to safeguard their developing eyes, and help protect their vision for the future. In addition, our extended range will help equip and address a larger myopic population of children and teenagers,” said Norbert Gorny, Chief Scientific Officer at EssilorLuxottica.
Essilor Stellest lenses slow myopia progression by 67% on average, compared to single vision lenses, when worn 12 hours per day, every day.†1
Essilor Stellest lenses are not yet available in the U.S. market.
References
*Two-year prospective, controlled, randomized, double-masked clinical trial results on 54 myopic children wearing Essilor Stellest lenses compared to 50 myopic children wearing single vision lenses in Wenzhou, China.
†Two-year prospective, controlled, randomized, double-masked clinical trial results on 54 myopic children wearing Essilor Stellest lenses compared to 50 myopic children wearing single vision lenses in Wenzhou, China. Results based on 32 children from the Test Group wearing Essilor Stellest lenses at least 12 hours per day every day for two consecutive years
§ Subject to the prescription provided by prescribing eye care professionals, the products are technically available for a wider power range of SER (SER≤ 0 D).
¶SER ≤0 for sphere [0.00; +2.00]
- Bao J et al. Spectacle lenses with aspherical lenslets for myopia control vs single-vision spectacle lenses: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA ophthalmology. 2022;140(5):472-8
- Drobe B. et al., Influence of wearing time on myopia control efficacy of spectacle lenses with aspherical lenslets. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2022 Jun 1;63(7):4324-A0029
