Tried and Tested: Ortho-K

The pace at which the product options for management of myopia has increased in the past two-to-three years has caused great excitement among practitioners. Whether it is one of several new soft contact lenses or a complex ophthalmic lens design, there are more accessible options for practices to tempt practices into the specialism of myopia management.

But there is one modality that has been around for much longer and could be in danger of missing out amid the fanfare surrounding newer products – orthokeratology or Ortho-K. The technique, which uses a rigid contact lens to reshape the profile of the cornea, has been used since the mid-2000s for low-to-moderate myopia refractive error correction, but in recent years has become a more common modality for longer-term myopia control.