Treatment of myopia
The treatment of myopia focuses on correction of the refractive error, and there are multiple available options such as:
1- Eyeglasses
In most cases of myopia eyeglasses would be sufficient. Eyeglasses is the first choice of treatment for mild and moderate myopia types. For mild myopia, wearing the eyeglasses is usually enough for correction and may be needed in some situations like reading or driving only, while in cases of moderate or high myopia, the patient may need to wear his eyeglasses all day.
In eyeglasses, single vision lens is used to provide clear visual fields in all direction, and it is the most used corrective lens, while multifocal lens is prescribed to provide different powers above and below a certain line on the lens, it is usually used to treat patients with accommodation problems.
