Myopia is also known as being short-sighted or near-sighted. This means that your distance vision is blurry but things that are up-close can be seen clearly. There are varying degrees of myopia that come with greater risks.
Myopia itself is usually caused by the eye growing too long in shape, causing light to focus in front of the retina, rather than directly on it. Though all of the reasons for this are not yet fully understood, there are several factors that increase the likelihood of a child becoming myopic; these include both genetic and environmental factors.
A child is 3 times more at risk of being myopic if just one parent is myopic
The risks associated with high myopia include retinal detachments, glaucoma and myopic retinal degeneration later in life. The risk increases as the prescription gets worse. These conditions can lead to sight loss, sometimes irreversibly. It is important to stay up-to-date with eye tests in order to monitor the progression of myopia.
Here at Perspective we offer a comprehensive myopia management plan with the aim to control and slow the progression of myopia for children under 18 years old. The plan starts from just £36 per month and consists of:
We have seen very positive results for our young patients wearing MiYOSMART and Stellest lenses, since their release in early 2022.
The specialised myopia control spectacle lenses have been designed based on long-standing research, showing eye growth can be controlled based on how images are focused in the peripheral parts of the retina, the light sensitive layer at the back of the eye. It is not just central vision that is important to visual development in children, but peripheral vision signals as well.
When standard spectacle lenses are worn to correct myopia, central vision is made clear but peripheral light rays are focused behind the retina causing blur. This appears to trigger the eye to grow towards where the peripheral image is focused, behind the retina, leading to accelerated eye growth and increased myopia.
The principal of myopia control vision correction is to make peripheral light rays focus in front of the retina. This type of optical profile instead creates a 'slow-down' signal for eye growth, to stop the retina moving further away from the peripheral light focus which is now in front of the retina. The result is that any slowing of eye growth will similarly slow progression of myopia.
The Essilor Stellest spectacle lenses include individual tiny lenslets that focus light in front of the retina, with the remainder of the lens providing the focus power required to correct vision. The clever technology incorporated into this design causes light rays that pass through the lenslets to remain focused in front of the retina, to act as a stop signal for myopia eye growth, no matter which part of the lens a child is looking through.
Clinical studies have shown that MiYOSMART and Stellest lenses are effective at slowing progression of myopia by at least 50%.
Follow these links for more information on Myopia control we hope you will find helpful.
https://www.hoyavision.com/uk/for-spectacle-wearers/miyosmart
