Ortho-K &
Myopia control
Ortho-K is an overnight wear contact lens that leaves wearers with clear vision during the day, without the need to wear contact lenses or glasses.
Ortho-K contact lenses are worn overnight. They gently shape the front surface of the eye (cornea) whilst patients sleep, reducing their prescription and neutralising low to moderate levels of myopia. A little like sleeping with a retainer overnight to keep your teeth straight. When patients wake up in the morning, they remove their Ortho-K contact lenses and can see clearly, just like someone who isn’t short sighted.
Patients who wear Ortho-K absolutely love it. They feel completely free of their short sight and don’t feel limited by their contact lenses or spectacles through the day.
Ortho-K is completely reversible, so unlike refractive surgery there is no irreversible commitment to consider. If you stop wearing your Ortho-K, your vision reverts back to it’s natural short sighted state.
When used by short sighted children and teenagers, Ortho-K has also been shown to slow the progression of myopia and reduce how short sighted children become.
What is Ortho-K?
The video below explains what Ortho-K (also known as orthokeratology) is and how it works.
You can also download the latest EyeDream brochure to find out more.
Myopia control contact lenses
Myopia control contact lenses are a revolutionary type of daily disposable contact lens that have been clinically shown to reduce the progression of short sight in children and teenagers, by up to 50%.
Many short sighted parents worry about their children following them on the same path, becoming short sighted as children or teenagers, and their prescription increasing with every visit. Previously, we had no way of controlling that increase in short sight, but now we can often slow that progression with specialist myopia control contact lenses.