Eye-shaping contacts may repair vision
Cosmos Magazine, December 6, 2007
By Joshua Cockfield
SYDNEY: Australian researchers are testing a new method to stop the progression of short-sightedness with special contact lenses that alter the shape of the eye.
Short-sightedness or 'myopia' affects 25 per cent of Australian adults and there is currently no preventative treatment.
Optometrist and research scientist Helen Swarbrick, of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, is now leading a world-first study, where children will wear rigid contact lenses that reshape their eyes – a technique known as orthokeratology (orthoK).
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