Can you continue my child's existing myopia control treatment in Bangkok?

In most cases, yes. Our optometrist will start with a fresh measurement of your child's current prescription and eye health, then review what your home-country optometrist was using. If your child was on a spectacle-based myopia control lens, we can fit an equivalent — such as Hoya MiYOSMART, made to order within 1–5 business days — so the approach stays consistent rather than switching to a plain single-vision lens by default. We don't currently provide orthokeratology (overnight ortho-K lenses) or prescribe atropine eye drops in-house, so if your child's treatment abroad was drop-based or ortho-K, we'll be upfront about that and can advise on next steps.

What information should I bring from our home-country optometrist?

Bring whatever paperwork you have — it saves time and helps us understand the trend, not just a single number. Useful items include: your child's most recent full prescription (both eyes), any axial length measurements if they were taken, a note of which myopia control lens or method was used, and ideally a history of how the prescription changed over the past 1-2 years. If you don't have all of this, that's fine too — we'll simply do a complete fresh exam here and build forward from that.

How often does my child need a follow-up visit?

Myopia management is generally monitored with a check-up roughly every six months, since the point of tracking is to see how the prescription is changing over time, not just at a single visit. Your optometrist here will confirm a schedule based on your child's age, prescription trend, and what was recommended before you moved.

Do you offer orthokeratology or atropine eye drops for myopia control?

Currently, our myopia management service at Optical X is centered on specialty spectacle lenses, including Hoya MiYOSMART. We do not provide overnight orthokeratology lenses or prescribe atropine eye drops in-house. If your child's treatment abroad used one of those methods, let us know during your visit and we can discuss what's realistic here and help point you toward appropriate care if needed.

Continuing Your Child's Myopia Control Treatment in Bangkok

Moved to Bangkok Mid-Treatment for Your Child's Myopia Control?

Stopping and restarting isn't nothing — consistency matters. We can pick up where your last optometrist left off, with proper measurement, not a guess.

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Two kids wearing glasses playing video games together at home — Kids don't slow down for treatment — myopia control lenses are built to keep up with normal daily life, screens included.

Myopia (nearsightedness) in children tends to get worse year by year during childhood and adolescence, as the eye continues to grow. Myopia control — sometimes called myopia management — refers to methods aimed at slowing that progression during the growing years, rather than only correcting vision at the level it happens to be today.

The approach we work with at Optical X is specialty spectacle lenses designed for this purpose, most notably Hoya MiYOSMART, a lens developed by Hoya together with Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Unlike a standard single-vision lens, it has a central zone that corrects everyday vision and a surrounding zone of small optical segments designed to change how light focuses at the periphery of the retina — the mechanism researchers link to signalling the eye to grow more slowly.

Close-up of a myopia control lens's concentric ring optical design, visible when lit at an angle — The ring pattern surrounding the clear center is what separates a myopia control lens from a standard single-vision one.

A Zeiss myopia control lens fitted and worn, close-up on the eye — Zeiss also makes a myopia control design — we'll fit whichever brand your child's treatment plan calls for.

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We won't promise a specific outcome for your child. Published clinical research on lenses like MiYOSMART has shown meaningful average slowing of myopia progression in study populations over multi-year follow-up — but every child's eyes respond differently, and progression also depends on genetics, screen time, outdoor time, and consistency of wear. What we can promise is a proper measurement, an honest conversation about what the options are, and consistent monitoring going forward.

Kids in myopia control glasses playing outdoors with magnifying glasses — Outdoor time is one of the factors linked to slower myopia progression — the lens is only one part of the plan.

It's also worth being clear about what we don't offer in-house: we do not currently provide orthokeratology (overnight ortho-K contact lenses) or prescribe atropine eye drops. If your child's treatment back home used one of those methods, tell us during your visit — we'll be upfront about what we can and can't continue directly, and can help you think through next steps.