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How Can wearing contacts while sleeping at night (Orthokeratology) Help with Myopia Management?

Is your child wearing glasses or daytime contact lenses? Is the prescription getting worse and worse faster than you can keep up every few months? “Ortho-K,” is an overnight contact lens to correct vision, leaving you glasses and contacts free during the day. Along with that convenience of having perfect vision all day, Ortho-K is also PROVEN to slow down or even stop the progression of myopia.

Myopia “nearsightedness”, begins in childhood. It is now considered an epidemic eye disease and npt just a refractive problem. Myopia is becoming a lot more prevelant due to our modern lifestyle and is still on the rise worldwide. It is caused when the eye becomes elongated as a child grows. This can be due to both genetics and environmental factors. Myopia causes blurred and distorted vision at distance. While glasses or daytimecontact lenses adjust for this distortion, they don’t address the underlying problem, the progressive myopia, which will continue to worsen into adulthood. Orthok DOES address myopia and KEEPS IT FROM GETTING WORSE!


Who can benefit from ORTHOK?

Both children and adults! For children OrthoK is beneficial for vision correction, freedom from glasses and managing the progression of myopia. Whereas in adults it's for freedom from glasses and daytime contacts.
Adults that are not good candidates for LASIK surgery or simply don't want the risk of permanent complictions from LASIK surgery are great candidadtes for OrthoK.
People with sensitive eyes that can not tolarate daytime contacts are candidates for OrthoK.
Athletes (both adults and kids) are also great candidates.


At Ocean Eyecare in Redmond our patients undergo a full Ortho-K assessment before any fitting is made. Our Ortho-K specialists, Dr. Shams and Dr. Dawar, will assess the health of your eye, your exact corrective prescription, the exact shape and elevation maps of your corneas and whether or not you are a good candidate.

Once you have been approved and assessed, the Ortho-K process works more or less in two steps: Ordering the correct lens, coming in for fitting and training appointment once lenses are at our office and wering the lenses overnight. We bring our patients back for 2-3 followups initially to make sure we have the perfect fit, comfort and vision. once everything is perfect, then we follow up every 6 months.


Ortho-K Is A lifetime Investment in your vision and eye health!

As the saying goes “Education is the Best Legacy.” It is very important that you give your child proper education. but, an eye disease like myopia can hinder your a child from reading, writing, and learning. Orthok offers a fast and effective solution to this problem.

By improving your child’s vision, you will be increasing their chances of learning and succeeding. This is definitely a lifetime investment for you and your child. OrthoK at Ocean Eyecare is your best chance of controlling myopia and the best investment in your child's future success!





 
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