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Research on using Bifocal Spectacles to control Myopic Progression
Randomized Trial of effect of bifocal and prismatic bifocal spectacles on Myopic Progression; Two-Year Results
Desmond Cheng, OD, MSc, PhD; Katrina L. Schmid, PhD; George C. Woo, OD, MSc, PhD; Bjorn Drobe, MSc, PhD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2010;128(1):12-19. doi:10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.332
This well respected research looked into the claim that bifocal spectacles could control the development of myopia (shortsightedness) in children.
The study concluded that Bifocal lenses can moderately slow myopic progression.
Behavioural Optometrists had researched this many years before, and found the same results.