Any age restriction for Ortho-k?

No, both adults and children can wear Ortho-K lenses. The youngest patient we have was 6 years old, her mother worked with her every night and after 2 months, this cute girl was able to insert and remove the lenses by herself under her mom’s supervision. Also, we have few people in their 40’s and 50’s who love the freedom that Ortho-K brings to them. One eye was corrected for distance vision and the other for reading, this is known as “monovision”.

How quickly is my vision to improve with Ortho-K?

Your vision will improve after the first night and it will improve further and stabilise over the next two weeks of Ortho-K wear because your eye shape remodel with the treatment. For higher degrees of short-sightedness and astigmatism will take longer time to achieve optimum vision.

What prescriptions are suitable for Ortho-K?

Ortho-K typically works best for myopia (short-sightedness) between -1.00 to -6.00. The amount of astigmatism reduction depends on the type of astigmatism and amount. The upper limits for astigmatism reduction are 1.50 diopters of “with-the-rule” corneal astigmatism and 0.75 diopters of “against-the-rule” corneal astigmatism. Ortho-K will not have an effect on the internal astigmatism.

Since 1957 - Optometrist

Optometrist Journey started way back in 1957 from the beginning of times through the hands of my grandfather,

● Story of Malaya Optical begin since 1957. Ho Kai, pioneer, and founder of Malaya
Optical emigrated to The Malay Peninsular in the year 1922.
● Malaya Optical was opened for business at High Street (Jalan H.S.Lee) in 1971.
● Bobby Hoe former President of Malaysian Optometry Association (MOA), a former
member of Malaysia Optical Council, joined the company as Ocular Prosthesis Specialist
in 1971.
● William Ho, President of MOA, joined the company as Operation Manager.
● In 1974 KM Ho, from University of Auckland, New Zealand joined the company as a
optometrist consultant.
● Followed then by 1979 Paul Ho, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand joined
the company as a optometrist consultant.
● In 1980 Malaya Optical PJ opened for business at New Town, Petaling Jaya and
managed by Paul Ho
● 2001 Journey as graduates from the USA, Agnes Chin joined as Optician & Director and
Ryan Ho as Optometrist & CEO for Malaya Optical Uptown Sdn Bhd and the Malaya
Optical Damansara Uptown was opened for business
● 2006 Malaya Optical Subang Jaya opened for business at SS15, Subang Jaya
● 2009 Malaya Optical become one of the first Carl Zeiss Relaxed Vision Centre, RVT in
Malaysia and also won our very first Branfd Laureate award.
● 2010 Brand Laureate winner for the Best Vision Solution Center andr eceived Johnson &
Johnson Top Fitter Award. Malaya Optical is also one of the first Optometrist center in
Malaysia that uses the Zeiss iProfiler in Malaysia
● 2012 Malaya Optical – The Eye Experience Boutique was established and HQ
centeralize purchased implemented aross our retail shops
● 2016 Malaya Optical Damansara Uptown – Upgraded with eye health diagnostic
screening centre with the state of the art equipment and to a Zeiss Vision Centre with 2
refraction room
● 2017 Malaya Optical HQ – Office was relocated, expansion of office and warehousing.
● 2018 Shop.malayaoptical.com was launched and serves the entire Malaysia for eyewear
and contact lenses orders.
● 2021 Malaya Optical Jalan Imbi as relocated from Tun HS Lee
● 2022 Malaya Optical Subang SS15 – Upgraded with eye health diagnostic screening
centre with the state of the art equipment and to a Zeiss Vision Centre with 2 refraction
room.

As the story goes, the optometrist journey never ends as we always constantly seek to achieve a high level of Professionalism and eye care values.