Do you wear glasses or contact lenses for nearsightedness or astigmatism? If you do, imagine being able to golf, dive into a pool, swim, sky dive, play tennis, skateboard, play basketball or baseball, bike, jog or just have a relaxing day working in the garden without the hassle of wearing glasses or the worry of losing a contact lens. Imagine no longer. OrthoK may offer you that very opportunity.
OrthoK (short for orthokeratology) is a nonsurgical procedure using specially designed contact lenses to gently reshape the curvature of the eye to improve vision. It works each night while you sleep.
Thanks to recent breakthroughs in science and technology, OrthoK's many advantages are now more widely available to those who wish to improve their vision. By correcting vision while a patient sleeps, OrthoK vision improvement is a convenient and comfortable way to improve natural vision without surgery. It offers many compelling advantages over traditional eye care alternatives. Here are just a few:
With OrthoK vision improvement you can literally sleep your way to better vision. Patients are fitted with specially designed contact lenses that are worn at night while they sleep. They put them on at night and take them off in the morning. Children do it routinely. It's that easy.
The OrthoK procedure is the best procedure available that can control myopia in children. Unlike glasses or contact lenses, OrthoK slows down or in most situations actually stops the progression of nearsightedness. Lasik is not used on children.
Unlike Lasik, the laser eye surgery procedure, OrthoK involves no surgery. It is non-invasive. Unlike Lasik, which is irreversible, OrthoK is fully reversible. If a patient decides to withdraw from the treatment program, for whatever reason, the procedure is reversible. The patient can return to wearing glasses or contact lenses just as they did prior to enrolling in OrthoK.
OrthoK has been tested worldwide on hundreds of thousands of patients over the past 40 years. With the advent of space age polymers, breakthroughs in new permeable lenses that permit overnight wear, modern computer-assisted lathe technology enabling high-accuracy lens fabrication and advances in topographical cornea mapping, this procedure has now become more accessible to patients seeking vision improvement.
OrthoK costs generally range from $1500 to $2500 - about half the cost of Lasik as shown below.
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ORTHOK |
LASIK |
ORTHOK COST ADVANTAGE |
High |
$2,500 |
$6,000 |
-58% |
Medium |
$2,000 |
$4,000 |
-50% |
Low |
$1,500 |
$3,000 |
-50% |
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Cost figures are for both eyes. Sources: Business Week, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and NPR
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OrthoK means freedom. Freedom from the inconveniences of nearsightedness. Freedom from wearing contact lenses during the day. Freedom from wearing glasses. Freedom from the hassles of stopping what you are doing to search for them when you've lost them.
That's pretty exciting.
If you think you or your child might qualify as a good candidate for OrthoK vision improvement, give our office a call at (805) 484-7903 and ask for a free consultation with Dr. Anderson.
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