No 7 secures TV coverage for Ortho-k

No 7 Contact Lenses has secured TV coverage for its Ortho-k corneal reshaping lenses which are being used with patients in Kent and the lenses myopia control potential explored.

Neil Donnelly, who has a practice in Sevenoaks, is using Ortho-k with a group of youngsters who have short-sighted parents and who look likely to become moderately myopic but he is also pointing to the method’s myopia progression potential.

‘Ortho-k is a system of vision correction which works while you sleep each night, much as braces work on the teeth. By carefully adjusting the cornea with tailor-made contact lenses, which are worn each night, minute changes occur which result in very good vision upon waking.  We are moving the cornea by less than a hair’s width but the results are astounding.  What is more, a series of international studies are showing that this means of sight correction is stopping the progression of myopia in its tracks,’ told ITV.