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Article: Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to 'Myopic Creep' in Children, Study Shows.
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- November 12, 2008
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Largest randomized trial of its kind shows no clinically meaningful difference between contacts and glasses for progression of nearsightedness
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Soft contact lens wear does not result in clinically significant acceleration in the development of nearsightedness in children and does not cause relevant increases in axial length or corneal curvature, a new study shows. Findings from the three-year study, the largest randomized trial of its kind, appear in the November issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, the official journal of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
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