Visual Acuity and Over-refraction in Myopic Children Fitted with Soft Multifocal Contact Lenses.

ABSTRACT:

Significance

Practitioners fitting contact lenses for myopia control frequently question whether a myopic child can achieve good vision with a high-add multifocal. We demonstrate that visual acuity is not different than spectacles with a commercially available, center-distance soft multifocal contact lens (MFCL) (Biofinity Multifocal "D"; +2.50 D add).

Purpose

To determine the spherical over-refraction (SOR) necessary to obtain best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) when fitting myopic children with a center-distance soft MFCL.

Methods

Children (n = 294) aged 7 to 11 years with myopia (spherical component) of -0.75 to -5.00 diopters (D) (inclusive) and 1.00 D cylinder or less (corneal plane) were fitted bilaterally with +2.50 D add Biofinity "D" MFCLs. The initial MFCL p

SUBMITTER: Schulle KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880703 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature