Studies estimate that myopia will affect five billion people worldwide by 2050. Also, higher levels of myopia increase the incidence of suffering potentially blinding ocular complications: cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment and myopic maculopathy. It’s time to act!

We are so used to just altering the lens power in the prescription to fine tune vision, that we completely forget about the fact that the way the lens fits to the eye plays a huge role in lens comfort and vision. Think FIT before vision.

Excitement or fear? Which of these two polarising emotions do you experience when that “dreaded” patient walks into the practice – with astigmatism and either approaching or properly ensconced in presbyopia…