MiSight six-year study results

The multi-dimensional new Stepper SI-30174 features a TX5 front moulded to replicate the polished faces of a gemstone – creating a light-catching effect. Combined with simple bevelled titanium temples and presented in a monocolour with a mixture of gloss and matte across the materials, the new style comes in three colour variations.

“A frame has to be multifunctional,” said Peter Reeve, Stepper UK managing director. “The extrinsic needs of eyewear, that makes you look and feel good, as well as the intrinsic ability to hold a lens correctly in front of the eye whilst benefitting from daylong comfort, isn’t an easy art.” The frame weighs just 14.1g and is further enhanced with Stepper’s renowned bridge design and hypoallergenic materials. Email the editor at: nicola.collinson@nationaleyecare.co.uk

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New six-year study results have shown that CooperVision MiSight 1 day contact lenses provide myopia control for nearly all children. In the longest-running soft contact lens study among children, 90 per cent of myopic eyes responded to MiSight 1 day wear with a proportional treatment effect, meaning that younger and faster-progressing children receive the maximum benefit. Evidence also indicated a sustained slowing of eye growth with no loss of effectiveness over time.

The peer-reviewed six-year paper, in press from Optometry and Vision Science, is titled ‘Long-term effect of dual-focus contact lenses on myopia progression in children: A 6-year multicenter clinical trial’ (Chamberlain P, et al) is now available via Open Access. It complements additional CooperVision research demonstrating that the lens slows the rate of myopia progression by half at all observed ages. The

The new My-Nor lens from Norville is a perifocal myopia control lens with three unique characteristics: horizontal defocus, asymmetry and positive spherical blur. The lens consist of a central vision area, which provides stable refraction at the geometric centre, surrounded by a progressive peripheral vision with asymmetrical positive/myopic defocus in the horizontal meridian. A five-year (2012-2018) clinical study, conducted by the Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases, found that perifocal lenses reduced myopia progression on average by 40 per cent, and axial length by 31 per cent, in a group of 94 children aged seven to 14 years.

Paul Jones, Norville head of sales and marketing, said: “We believe the Norville My-Nor myopia control lens, backed by fiveyear study results, offers our customers more choice. Cosmetically, the lens looks like a standard lens. It is offered in multiple indices and a range of coating options and treatments – as well as with photochromic technology. Competitively priced, My-Nor is easy to dispense and available to anyone with a Norville account. Our great hope is that My-Nor becomes the spectacle lens for the many and not the few – and our

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Latest results from longest-running study

lens has also been shown to halve myopia progression in older children as well.

“Myopia is a disease that progresses over many years, so demonstrating sustained efficacy is critical,” said Paul Chamberlain, the study’s principal investigator and CooperVision director of research programmes. Eyecare professionals can prescribe MiSight 1 day with confidence knowing that the majority of children respond to treatment which lasts.”

sales team is happy to support practitioners interested in learning more,” Paul added.

We’ve partnered with Plastic Bank® to help stop ocean-bound plastic by offsetting our plastic consumption through their Certified Plastic Neutral programme. Here in the UK and Ireland, we purchase credits equal to the weight of plastic used in our one-day contact lenses, the blister and carton2 – and an equal amount of plastic is collected by Plastic Bank.®

As all CooperVision one-day contact lenses sold in the UK and Ireland are plastic neutral, you will automatically be prescribing plastic neutral too.