Rodenstock MyCon lenses are designed to correct myopia, ensure sharp vision and counteract the progression of myopia in any nearsighted child, even preventively.
Whether tablets, computers or homework, today’s children focus more on what’s directly in front of them rather than spending time outdoors. This behavioural change is leading to an increasingly higher number of children developing myopia – also called nearsightedness. In 2020, over a third of the world’s population was myopic, a sharp increase from only two decades ago. The experts at Rodenstock have developed a solution: The new Rodenstock MyCon lenses that are specially designed to correct myopia and ensure sharp vision while controlling myopia progression in children.
If one of the parents is myopic, the child’s risk of developing the condition is increased. The risk is even higher if both parents are myopic, with the likelihood rising to 35-60%. Myopia also tends to progress faster if the child’s parents are myopic. Childhood myopia also increases the risk of eye disease in adulthood. Controlling childhood myopia helps ensure healthier eyes in the long run, as the risk of developing eye diseases in adulthood is significantly reduced. As vision expert, Rodenstock always strive to create the sharpest vision possible – also for children. That's why with the new MyCon lenses (the name comes from Myopia Control) the company developed is a solution to help control myopia progression in children.
Myopia is a result of the eye being slightly too long. The way normal single vision lenses correct myopia causes light in the periphery to hit behind the retina. For some children, their eyes try to adapt and grow even longer, which causes the myopia to progress further.
Rodenstock MyCon lenses correct myopia while controlling eye elongation, slowing myopia progression. With MyCon lenses, light in the periphery is refracted to hit in front of the retina, slowing eye elongation, a crucial aspect of maintaining children’s vision. That’s why the progression control areas in MyCon lenses are placed to the sides of the lens and ensure that light in the periphery does not hit behind the retina. Here, they slow myopia progression or eye elongation, while leaving the main vision zones of the lens undisturbed, creating sharp vision. The focus area in the lens ensures that the child can see sharply wherever they focus their eyes.
Advantages for the optician
For some children, wearing glasses can be a barrier, as they are unhappy with the looks. Rodenstock offers opticians MyCon lenses with an index of 1.5, 1.6, 1.67 as well as 1.74 and does not use polycarbonate. As a result, MyCon lenses are both thinner and lighter than many of the commercially available myopic lenses - a strong selling point for the optician. Through MyCon, the optician reaches a whole new and very broad target group, considering the increase in myopia in children. He can recommend MyCon lenses to all myopic children, regardless of whether they are severely or only slightly myopic, and does not need any additional equipment for myopia management. This makes it easy to include MyCon lenses in one's own portfolio and gives the optician the opportunity to position himself clearly vis-à-vis the competition. Another advantage is the attractive pricing, as well as extensive advertising and campaign resources, through which the optician secures long-term customer loyalty by providing care from infancy onwards, and furthermore highlights his expertise in sharp vision for children with myopia.
