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Home confinement's impact on myopia control by using orthokeratology in school-aged children.

Boyuan ZhangHongfei LiaoFen XiongTian MaoLili WuYue LiChao Xiong
Published in: BMC ophthalmology (2023)
We cannot conclude that home confinement did have a negative impact on myopia control with orthokeratology in school-aged children. But we found there was an increase in the percentage of patients with OK treatment that had fast myopia progression during the confinement. We also observed that older children with higher initial refraction were more likely to be affected by home confinement.
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