Longsighted view of myopia management

Myopia was certainly a key theme at this year’s AAO conference in Orlando. And with the World Health Organisation using the conference to underline the importance of optometry in the first presentation of their newly published World report on Vision, in which the global threat to eye health from myopia is emphasised, this was perhaps no surprise.

Of the many various methods of myopia management currently being practised, contact lens management is the most commonly used. So many papers presented this year discussed both the effectiveness of the technique and the safety issues raised by introducing long term contact lens correction from an early age.

Safety