Myopia Management Clinic

MYOPIA MANAGEMENT:

PROTECTING CHILDRENS FUTURE

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Not sure if Myopia Management is right for your child?

If you are worried about the rate at which your child's myopia is progressing, then our Myopia Management service is here to help. At these appointments, we closely look at the patient's prescription and recommend a lens solution to try and help slow down the rate their myopia is progressing. We then conduct frequent follow-ups determined by the optometrist to make sure everything is flowing smoothly.

At Special Looks Opticians, we are partnered with Coopervision to provide MiSight Contact Lenses, and Hoya to provide MiyoSmart Spectacle lenses. With these two options, we can cover a wide range of myopic prescriptions allowing us to manage patients' myopia and, hopefully, slow down their rate of progression and prevent serious eye conditions.

Currently myopia management is not available on the NHS. As such we can only see patients privately for myopia management appointments and dispensing of spectacles. Learn more about our fees here.

These appointments are similar to sight tests, however they involve a closer look into the refractive state of your child, and so we will check their suitability for myopia management, as well as put drops in their eyes to determine their prescription in the most accurate way possible before we prescribe any myopia management options.

Why Does Myopia Matter?

"There is no safe level of myopia" - Professor Ian Flitcroft

Eye health is severely impacted by myopia, and every -1.00D increases the risk of eye conditions such as:

Myopic Macular Degeneration
Glaucoma
Cataracts
Retinal Detachments

As such, we need to be trying to reduce the level of myopia in children, to reduce the risk of vision loss in the future.

Further to this, high prescriptions mean that patients often spend more on their glasses due to having to thin their lenses down, or are often tied into contact lenses or refractive surgery later in life, meaning there is an economical cost as well as a health cost to high levels of myopia.

Pictured - a retinal image of myopic macular degeneration