Myopia Control & Management
We have the latest in myopia control with Essilor Stellest and CooperVision MiSight
What Is Myopia?
Myopia, also known as nearsightedness or shortsightedness, is a condition in which people can see clearly up close, but objects farther away appear blurred. It commonly occurs when a person’s eyeball is too long. It typically develops in children of school age and tends to progress until adulthood. Wearing glasses or contacts will make distance vision clearer but the eye can continue to progressively grow. This growth of the eye causes your child’s vision to worsen and puts them at higher risk for eye diseases as they get older. The illustration below shows how normal vision and nearsightedness differ.
What Is Myopia Control?
Myopia control or myopia management is specialized treatment designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children. Managing myopia early is essential because high levels of myopia can increase the risk of serious eye conditions later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataracts, and myopic maculopathy. The goal of myopia control is to keep your child’s prescription as low as possible and safeguard their long-term eye health.
Torrance Myopia Control Center
The Myopia Control Center at Torrance Optometry brings the best advanced products and methods and the decades of experience our eye doctors have in caring for the eye health and vision needs of young children into adult life. We are excited to be able to offer these great options for managing nearsightedness with the goal of slowing myopia progression and maximizing eye health.
Myopia Management Treatments We Offer
Stellest Lenses Slow Progression of Myopia
What are Essilor® Stellest® lenses?
First & only FDA market authorized eyeglass lenses to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children.*1
Stellest lenses slowed myopia progression by 71% on average over 2 years.*1
Traditional single vision lenses and conventional contact lenses correct vision but do not slow myopia progression. Myopia management, a more comprehensive approach, includes preventing or delaying myopia onset, correcting vision, slowing and monitoring myopia progression, and management over time.3
As part of myopia management, Essilor® Stellest® lenses are designed to both correct vision and help slow myopia progression in children aged 6-12 years.
H.A.L.T.** Technology
The Essilor® Stellest® lenses have been designed with an exclusive and pioneering technology called H.A.L.T.** (Highly Aspherical Lenslet Target Technology). The H.A.L.T.** technology is made of a constellation of 1,021 invisible† lenslets. This constellation creates a volume of myopic defocus, sending a signal to slow eye elongation and myopia progression *1.
MiSight Myopia Control Contacts
MiSight® a 1-day contact lenses are soft, daily disposable lenses developed specifically for children with myopia. As the first and only FDA-approved soft contact lens for myopia control, MiSight lenses incorporate special optics designed to focus light in a way that helps slow the growth of the eye, thereby managing the progression of nearsightedness while still providing clear vision throughout the day. MiSight lenses are comfortable for all-day wear, convenient since there is no need for cleaning or storage, and have been clinically proven to slow myopia progression in children.
The MiSight recommended age range is 8-12 years*, as supported by tests specifically for those ages. However, MiSight can be started with children as young as 5 years and up to 20 years or older.
Managing Myopia with MiSight Soft Contacts
*Indications for use: MiSight® 1 day (omafilcon A) soft (hydrophilic) contact lenses for daily wear are indicated for the correction of myopic ametropia and for slowing the progression of myopia in children with non-diseased eyes, who at the initiation of treatment are 8-12 years of age and have a refraction of -0.75 to -4.00 diopters (spherical equivalent) with ≤ 0.75 diopters of astigmatism. The lens is to be discarded after each removal.
Atropine Eye Drops
A prescription eye drop that can have a relaxing effect on over-focusing accommodation muscles. Low dose atropine drops given before bed time can slow the growth or elongation of the eye when used over time. A low dose atropine regimen is often followed for several years and into adolescence, until the length and growth of the eyes becomes stable.