ARVO 2019 Part 3 – Contact Lens Updates
This is Part 3 on the Annual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2019 (ARVO) conference summary.
Orthokeratology
OSO 2018 – Part 2
Discover part 2 of the latest news from the biennial Orthokeratology Society of Oceania (OSO) conference 2018.
OSO 2018 – Part 1
Discover the highlights from the biennial Orthokeratology Society of Oceania conference covering OrthoK and myopia control research and practice.
ARVO 2018 – Part 2
With over 10,000 attendees and thousands of research posters, papers and symposiums presented over 5 days, it was a mind blowing nerdy extravaganza. Here are a bunch of cutting edge research pieces which I posted to the Myopia Profile Facebook group at the time.
International Myopia Conference 2017 Part 1
The session topics covered prevalence, progression and risk factors of myopia, mechanisms such as light exposure and visual pathways, optical and pharmacological methods of myopia control, genetics, clinical trial considerations, myopic eye shape and accommodation and binocularity.
SMART study – orthokeratology slows progression of myopia
The recently published outcome from this multi-site USA based study is in agreement with previous studies comparing effect of orthokeratology in slowing progression of myopia in children compared to disposable soft contact lenses.
Orthokeratology for myopia control – meta-analysis
Two meta-analysis papers were published in the first half of 2015, both from Chinese research groups. Meta-analysis requires specifying a search criteria which is then followed over a set period of time to include all papers and reports that are caught by the search criteria terms.
