by Joel Harrison
29. August 2010 14:45
The Australian Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) has been conducting extensive research into short-sightedness to find a way of stopping its progress. Recently, the discovery of a new technology has been announced.
The scientists from the centre found out that simple vision correction, used both in eyeglasses and contact lenses, does not reduce the progression of myopia because it places peripheral vision behind the retina, leading to the elongation of the eye and therefore to increased short-sightedness.
The new technology, a result of a study conducted on more than 500 children in Australia and China, shifts the peripheral vision onto or even in front of the retina, simultaneously putting the central image on the retina, giving the patient perfect vision.
The managers of the centre licensed the technology to two companies. Carl Zeiss Vision acquired the rights to develop spectacles implementing the idea, while CIBA VISION, the manufacturer of AIR OPTIX and Focus® DAILIES® contact lenses, obtained the licence to produce similar contact lenses.
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