Lenses: Quest to slow myopia

I have been practising myopia management for about 14 years and first started after a dad who was -16.00 dioptres myopic, brought his son to see me. The boy had developed myopia at age eight, with a -1.00 prescription.

The father had done his research and wanted to try orthokeratology lenses, which had been shown to slow down the development of myopia, so I trained up and he was my very first ortho-k patient.

That patient is now at college and still wearing the contact lenses. He has a very healthy axial length and is approximately -3.00 myopic, but this would have been a very different story had his dad not acted. The odds were stacked against his son at eight and he would have been on a rollercoaster ride to poor vision.