Can OK glasses treat children’s myopia?

The full name of orthokeratology lens is rigid corneal contact lens for shaping. It is called Orthokeratologylens in English, so it is also called OK lens for short.

It originated in the United States. After 50 years of development, it has been used in 34 countries around the world. In Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia, more and more adolescent myopia patients choose to wear orthokeratology lenses to solve the problem of unclear vision. The proportion of wearers in our country is less than 5. Our country has introduced this medical device to treat myopia since the 1990s. In the early days of its introduction, it was not well utilized due to lax supervision and fake and shoddy products flooding the market.

With the advancement of medical and health technology, the upgrading of material quality, and the improvement of fitting technology, orthokeratology lenses have begun to be recognized by people again.

How does OK lens improve children's myopia?

Let’s first talk about how myopia occurs: Myopia is due to various reasons that cause the front and back diameter of the eyeball to become elongated, resulting in unclear vision.

OK lens targets the mechanism of myopia:

It flattens the cornea through the lens and reshapes the curvature of the cornea to correct myopia and astigmatism, thereby improving vision. As shown in the picture:

Wear orthokeratology lenses at night to obtain good vision during the day. The image on the retina is clear, effectively reducing the lengthening of the eye axis and controlling the progression of myopia.

Which children can wear OK glasses?

Not every child can or is suitable to wear OK glasses. The wearing of OK glasses requires strict standards:

Children with myopia and astigmatism, myopia is within 600 degrees, astigmatism The amount is within 150 degrees. Beyond this range, the correction effect will be poor.

The child is older than 8 years old and does not have conjunctivitis, keratitis, dry eye and other diseases.

Children and parents have good compliance and can review and replace lenses on time.

Children have parental supervision and a certain ability to take care of themselves