Myopia Management
What Myopia Means for Your Child's Eyes
Most children who need glasses for distance vision have myopia, or nearsightedness. The eye grows a little longer than average, so light focuses in front of the retina and faraway objects look blurry. Glasses and standard contacts correct that blur. What they do not do is slow the eye's continued growth, which is why a child's prescription often changes from one year to the next. Myopia management looks at that growth itself.
At CORVISION OPTOMETRY, our myopia management program uses MiSight contact lenses to help slow the progression of nearsightedness in eligible children, with your eye doctor deciding what fits each child.
How MiSight Lenses Aim to Slow Progression
MiSight is an FDA-approved soft, daily-wear contact lens designed for children. It corrects blurry distance vision across the lens, and it also carries built-in treatment zones intended to reduce the signal that tells a growing eye to keep lengthening.
In the three-year clinical study the practice links on our Innovations page, children wearing MiSight progressed more slowly on average than children wearing standard soft lenses. Results vary from child to child. MiSight is designed to slow progression, not to stop or reverse it, and it does not replace regular eye exams.
Is Your Child a Candidate for MiSight?
Candidacy is a clinical decision, and your eye doctor makes it after a full evaluation rather than from a prescription number alone. Our program generally considers children who:
- Are around 8 to 12 years old
- Are nearsighted with a prescription in the treatable range
- Have less than 1.00 diopter of astigmatism
- Have healthy eyes
- Can follow a daily lens routine with some help at home
Some children are better served by glasses or by a different option, and that is a normal outcome of a careful fitting. Ask at your child's next eye exam whether myopia management makes sense for them.
What Happens at Your Child's Visit
The first visit establishes a baseline. We measure your child's prescription, check eye health, take corneal measurements and talk through how quickly the prescription has been changing.
If MiSight looks suitable, we fit the lenses and teach both your child and you how to insert, remove and handle them. We check vision, comfort and lens position before lenses go home. Follow-up visits track how the eyes respond over time, and we adjust the plan as your child grows.
Daily Wear With MiSight Lenses
These are daily replacement lenses, worn during waking hours and thrown away each night, so there is no cleaning or storage routine to manage. Children should not sleep or swim in them.
Hand washing before any lens handling keeps wear safe. Call our office if your child has red or painful eyes, blurred vision that does not clear with a blink, discharge or sensitivity to light, and remove the lenses until you have spoken with us.
Related Care at CORVISION OPTOMETRY
Schedule a Myopia Management Visit
Bring your child's current glasses or contacts and any prescription history you have. We will walk you through what the evaluation shows and which options fit. Families across Fremont and the surrounding area are welcome.
