MiSight® Lenses for Myopia Management

The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends MiSight® for people with presbyopia and very young patients with nearsightedness. Managing myopia can help you perform near tasks. It can also prevent discomfort and frustration. While there are regular lenses that can help nearsightedness, MiSight can provide more help. The following are details to consider if you are thinking about managing your myopia with these lenses.

The Importance of Myopia Control

Myopia worsens as children grow older. The quick progression can lead to dependence on heavy prescriptions when they reach adulthood. Severe myopia increases the child’s risk of developing serious eye conditions like retinal detachment, glaucoma, and cataracts. That is why it is vital to slow the progression of this eye disease.

How MiSight Lenses Work

These lenses can control the progression of myopia in kids. MiSight lenses are soft, disposable contact lenses that you must replace daily. These lenses are comfortable. You can throw them out at the end of the day. These lenses can provide you with myopia control and vision correction. You don’t have to clean them anymore because they are disposable. Many patients like them because they are more comfortable than rigid contacts.

MiSight contact lenses can slow your eye elongation because of their design. Each lens has peripheral rings that can help focus the right amount of light in front of your retina. Every lens has two correction zones and two myopic zones. The center of each lens can correct your vision while alternating the rings around the center. This can then correct vision and control myopia.

The Way These Lenses Differ From Regular Contact Lenses

Regular contacts correct myopia. They can give you a clear vision, but they cannot delay the progression of myopia. These lenses do not have myopia treatment zones that surround the center. MiSight lenses offer what regular contacts cannot.

The Effectiveness

Studies show that MiSight contact lenses are effective in controlling myopia. It can reduce the progress of this refractive problem. It is easier for young children to adapt to these lenses than rigid lenses.

The Benefits

Children love to discover things around them. Good eyesight allows them to do this. Some kids do not have any problem when doing many things. Others experience limitations in what they can do because of their nearsightedness. Without any treatment, this eye condition will worsen. With MiSight, eye doctors can help their young patients better. Here are the benefits this technology can offer:

 

• It is easy to use. This corrective lens can make myopia management easier for your child. Your child will not experience stress using these lenses because they are disposable. Maintaining them will not be a problem at all.
   

• It has the latest technology. MiSight can manage myopia better because of its technology. It has ring structures that combine distance correction zones and peripheral treatment zones. These treatment zones can slow down myopia progression.
   

• It is FDA-approved. A majority of eye doctors use MiSight for managing nearsightedness.
  
   

MiSight can help manage myopia in children and adults. At Cobb Corner Eye Care, we help our patients get high-quality eye care for eye conditions. Please visit our clinic in Stoughton, Massachusetts, for an in-person consultation. Call 781-344-3335 to schedule an appointment or inquire about our MiSight treatment packages.