Reshaping Your Eyes with Contact Lenses:

Wouldn't it be great if your nearsightedness could be corrected while you sleep?  It might sound far-fetched, but it's a reality for some people.  It's call "Orthokeratology", or Ortho-k, and it is available through out the country.

Here is how it works:  When you sleep, you wear special contact lenses that gently reshape the surface of your eye, so you can see clearly even after you remove the lenses.  The effect is temporary- generally enough to get you through a day or so, but you must wear the special lenses each night.

Ortho-k is very safe for adults and children.

This non-surgical process flattens the cornea of the eye using the contact lenses.  Accelerated Ortho-k uses reverse geometry contact lenses.  Flattening the cornea reduces the focusing power of the eye.  If the amount of corneal flattening is accurately controlled, it is possible to bring the eye into correct focus and compensate for Myopia(nearsightedness).