Spectacle lenses with aspheric lenslets, also known as the Essilor Stellest lenses, were found to significantly slow myopia progression and axial elongation in children, according to results from a 2-year clinical trial presented at the virtual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.
The study had two objectives: to assess if spectacles with aspherical lenslets could slow myopia progression in children and to evaluate if there was a dose-dependent effect of lenslet asphericity, Jinhua Bao, an associate director of the Wenzhou Medical University–Essilor International