March 15, 2021 By Gary Gerber, OD, and Anil Idiculla, DMD “When we compare OrthoK to braces, we are further distancing ourselves...
March 11, 2021 Medmont has launched the Medmont Meridia to replace the Medmont E300. The new topographer is distributed by NIDEK in...
February 5, 2021 Professor Pauline Cho of the School of Optometry at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was named as the...
January 28, 2021 To view the four-part virtual education series post presentation, click here: Art Optical Specialty Lens Education Series. Specialty lens...
Jan. 28, 2021 GP Specialists, a provider of OrthoK lenses, is hosting a certification course for its iSee lens on Feb. 3 at 6 p.m....
January 19, 2021 SAN RAMON, Calif. – Expanding myopia management possibilities for eye care professionals, CooperVision Specialty EyeCare has begun offering 5...
January 11, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Florida – Johnson & Johnson Vision announced new guidance for eye care professionals to assess, monitor, and treat...
January 1, 2021 By Christopher Browning, OD Here’s how I grew my myopia practice from less than one child per month to...
December 14, 2020 THE Myopia Meeting webinars offer eye care professionals the opportunity to learn from the experts how to incorporate myopia...
December 8, 2020 The third webinar in THE Myopia Meeting Fall Series is online and available for free on-demand viewing. In this...
November 30, 2020 WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada and BRISBANE, Australia – The Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) and Myopia Profile have...
September 17, 2020 TruForm Optics today announced the acquisition of DreamLens for managing myopia through overnight orthokeratology. The company says this acquisition...
May 5, 2020 By Robert Burke When Sheila Morrison, OD, MS, FSLS, begins treating a child newly diagnosed with myopia, she expects...
Balance the risks of using an off-label treatment with the eye health consequences of no treatment at all.
Feb. 7, 2020 The use of orthokeratology to treat myopia regression after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) surgery was the subject...
Sponsored content Feb. 4, 2020 By Thanh Mai, OD, FSLS and Valerie Lam, OD, FAAO, FCOVD Primary care, check. Vision therapy,...
Individual interventions may not result in the expected efficacy.
Good patient selection is paramount.
Existing evidence has failed to convince doctors to uniformly embrace treatments for myopic progression control.
This course is approved for one (1) hour of CE credit by the American Board of Opticianry (ABO).
June 6, 2019 Thanh Pham, MD Ophthalmologist, Hai Yen Eye Care Research Intern, Brien Holden Vision Institute Presently a number of optical,...
The effect of overnight orthokeratology
Implicit in deciding when to initiate myopia management is monitoring pre-myopic patients who are at risk of developing myopia.
Over 30 percent of the world is currently myopic, and by 2050, almost 50 percent will be myopic… a staggering 5 billion...
Myopia is becoming a worldwide epidemic and imposes a tremendous public health burden.1-4 On top of the drastic increase in the overall...
For most eyecare professionals (ECPs), progressive myopia, especially among children, is a refractive error that they correct with single vision spectacles or...
Today’s optometrist can finally offer our young myopes an alternative to traditional refractive error correction that can improve their quality of life...