Myopia Management
Burbank Myopia Management Center
East Valley Eye Center’s Burbank Myopia Mangament Center offers the best products and methods and the decades of experience our eye doctors have in caring for the eye health and vision needs of young children into adult life. We are excited to be able to offer these great options for managing nearsightedness with the goal of slowing myopia progression and maximizing eye health.
Options We Offer
What Is Myopia?
Myopic is commonly known as nearsighted. Myopia or Nearsightedness is the ability to clearly see close images, but difficulty or unability to see farther away. Children often experience this first when being able to read book easily but have problems reading a board across the classroom. Eyeglasses or contacts will make distance vision clearer. Your child’s eyes can continue to progressively grow and cause their vision to worsen. This elevates risk for eye diseases as they get older.
Myopia Associated Eye Health Risks
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- Myopic macular degeneration (MMD)
- Cataracts
- Glaucoma
- Retinal detachment
- Staphyloma
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NEW! Essilor Stellest proven to slow myopia
Myopia Management to Slow Progression
Myopia control or myopia management is specialized treatment designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children. Managing myopia early is essential because high levels of myopia can increase the risk of serious eye conditions later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataracts, and myopic maculopathy. Our goal is to keep your child’s prescription as low as possible and safeguard their long-term eye health.
Stellest Lenses Slow Progression of Myopia
What are Essilor® Stellest® lenses?
First & only FDA market authorized eyeglass lenses to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children.*1
Stellest lenses slowed myopia progression by 71% on average over 2 years.*1
Traditional single vision lenses and conventional contact lenses correct vision but do not slow myopia progression. Myopia management, a more comprehensive approach, includes preventing or delaying myopia onset, correcting vision, slowing and monitoring myopia progression, and management over time.3
As part of myopia management, Essilor® Stellest® lenses are designed to both correct vision and help slow myopia progression in children aged 6-12 years.
H.A.L.T.** Technology
The Essilor® Stellest® lenses have been designed with an exclusive and pioneering technology called H.A.L.T.** (Highly Aspherical Lenslet Target Technology). The H.A.L.T.** technology is made of a constellation of 1,021 invisible† lenslets. This constellation creates a volume of myopic defocus, sending a signal to slow eye elongation and myopia progression *1.
Atropine Eye Drops
A prescription eye drop that can have a relaxing effect on over-focusing accommodation muscles. Low dose atropine drops given before bed time can slow the growth or elongation of the eye when used over time. A low dose atropine regimen is often followed for several years and into adolescence, until the length and growth of the eyes becomes stable.