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.

Zeiss DriveSafe - Optometrist

Driving could be a stressful and visual demanding task. We tend to have more issues during:

Rainy days.

Low light condition.

Glares from oncoming cars.

Even when you wear glasses, sometimes it may still be difficult to counteract the problems.

With Drivesafe by Carl Zeiss, the following attributes are almost instant:

Almost immediate adaptation

There were less feeling of giddiness. Because these are freeform design lenses where the surface of the lenses are digitally customized, it gives you a better adaptation experience and sharpened vision.

Less glaring when driving at night

The street lamp or the brake light from vehicle in front of you tend to have a halo surrounding it. With DriveSafe lenses, the halo is much reduced and everything seems to be sharper with clearer edges. Everything is near HD!

Better contrast and colour saturation

I could feel that the red brake lights and the red colour from traffic light seems to be of a better colour saturation

Blue Protect that cuts of hazardous blue wavelength

Comparing to others, DriveSafe lenses have a slight yellow tint, but much lighter than what you see on lenses cutting away hazardous blue wavelength. It can reduce eye-problems pertaining to usage of electronic to mobile screens.

Come to Malaya Optical and get your Drivesafe lenses today!