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16/5/2018

Myopia Awareness Week 2018

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Learn about myopia today.
Save your child's eyesight.
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This week, May 14-18, is Australia Myopia Awareness Week. A partnership between Brien Holden Vision Institute, Optometry Australia (NSW/ACT), and School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of NSW.


See eyecare experts, doctors and researchers speak about myopia and myopia control in the videos below:
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2/5/2018

Introducing ocular biometry to our clinic.

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Unlike most optometrists, we measure your child's eye length as part of our assessment. Because eye length matters when it comes to managing your child's myopia and assessing the risk of lifetime complications from abnormal eye growth.
At Eyecare Concepts Myopia Clinic we are pleased to announce the introduction of ocular biometry as part of our comprehensive myopia control assessment and treatment program for children and teenagers.

Ocular biometry with ultrasound technology enable us to add an extra dimension to our full-scope myopia care. Normally part of an eye specialist's suite of diagnostic equipment, we too can now measure precise changes in the eye's axial length (the length of the eyeball from the front surface to the retina) in our optometric clinic. As myopia progression is linked to abnormal eye growth and elongation, biometry gives us another way, in addition to measuring prescription changes, to check for progression and quantify the effectiveness of our myopia control treatments in reducing eye elongation.

After all, eye elongation is what leads to increased eye health risks in myopia, as the eye's structure and inner sensory layers become stretched. The average adult human eye has an axial length of around 23.3mm. An eye with high myopia of -6.00 may have an axial length of 26mm or more. The greater the eye's axial length, the greater the lifelong risks of developing eye diseases such as retinal detachment, retinal tears, myopic macular degeneration and glaucoma.
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Axial length biometric measurement is part of our standard of care for all children with progressive myopia.
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    Dr Philip Cheng — Optometrist
    The Myopia Clinic | Eyecare Concepts | Melbourne, Australia

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Ortho K Melbourne | The Myopia Clinic. Eyecare Concepts Kew East. Children's Optometrist Melbourne. Ortho K Specialist Melbourne.
The Myopia Clinic Melbourne
Eyecare Concepts Optometry
828 High St, ​Kew East VIC 3102              > DIRECTIONS
Mon-Wed 9-6; Thu-Fri 9-7; ​Sat 9-5
Extended hours consultations available on request.
03 9819 7695
info@eyecareconcepts.com.au
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The Myopia Clinic: Ortho K Melbourne & Myopia Control. Improving vision. Changing Lives. Providing comprehensive eye care and treatments to children & teenagers with short-sightedness. Eyecare Concepts Melbourne.
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    • Myopia Prevention
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