A @UHouston optometry professor, who pioneered wearing multifocal lenses to slow myopia in children, is reporting the ...

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And they've been successful. Berntsen and the BLINK Study team (Bifocal Lenses In Nearsighted Kids) has shown that having children with myopia wear high-add power multifocal contact lenses slows ...

Bifocal contacts with a powerful corrective prescription slowed the progression of nearsightedness in youngsters by 43% compared to single-vision contacts, the results showed.

But this latest trial, known as the Bifocal Lenses In Nearsighted Kids, or BLINK, study, is the first to empirically compare whether high-powered, soft bifocal contact lenses are better for ...

Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according to new results. The findings support an option for controlling the condition, also called ...

“Bifocal and multifocal contacts are the same thing for softs, but different animals when talking about RGP or hard lenses. They are fantastic when properly prescribed,” Liegler says.

Bifocal contact lenses aren't just for aging eyes anymore. In nearsighted kids as young as 7 years old, multifocal contact lenses with a heavy dose of added reading power can dramatically slow ...

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Today, the term includes disposable bifocal contact lenses, a new type of rigid gas-permeable lens and overnight orthokeratology lenses. As more and more baby boomers become presbyopic, ...