Treatment typically lasts a minimum of 2 years.  Progress visits will be scheduled every 6 months to check the length of the eye and prescription of the contacts/glasses.  Adjustments will be made to the treatment accordingly for your child.

At Honolulu Eye Clinic, we spend a lot of time training kids on contact lens care. We find that the responsibility of wearing and caring for contact lenses is more dependent upon how responsible your child is versus their age.  Many younger kids view wearing contacts as a privilege and most are even more compliant about how they care for them than our teenaged patients!  In fact, with the increased parent supervision required for younger kids to wear contacts, the children in the original MiSight®  study had no cases of microbial keratitis.

With hundreds of children now in myopia management using the treatments at Honolulu Eye Clinic, Dr. Wong and Bossert are the most experienced doctors in Hawaii.  They will discuss the specifics of your child’s nearsightedness, as well as expectations, at the initial consultation.

Several studies have shown the benefits of outdoor time at slowing myopic progression. Being outdoors in the sunlight is protective.  Kids who spent 1-2 hours/day outdoors, were on average a whole diopter less nearsighted than their peers who did not.  That would mean -3.00 prescription instead of a -4.00 prescription. And, the more time kids spent indoors on devices made their myopia worse.  Decreasing screen time and increasing outdoor time is beneficial.