Children who wore soft multifocal contact lenses for myopia control had no loss of treatment effect after discontinuing the lenses as teenagers, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
In the NIH-funded Bifocal Lenses in Nearsighted Kids 2 (BLINK2) study, 235 children with myopia aged 11 to 17 years who completed the BLINK randomized clinical trial wore high-add multifocal soft contact lenses (+2.50 D) for 2 years and switched to single-vision soft contact lenses in the third year.
David A. Berntsen, OD, PhD, Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry and clinical (Read more...)