Miyosmart lenses by Hoya are the innovative lenses for glasses, created to correct and reduce myopic progression in the youngest.

Myopia is caused by many factors often combined: genetic-hereditary, environmental, from the use-abuse of near vision, to vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Myopia is the most common of the visual defects, the images in a myopic eye are focused before the retina and this causes blurred vision from a distance.

The earlier the age of onset of this defect is, the more there are possibilities of worsening: the statistics indicate an average of 0.5 diopters per year in the age of development.

This worsening is called "myopic progression" and is caused by an excessive development of the size of the eye called "axial elongation".

An excessive axial elongation of the eye is often correlated with an increased risk of eye diseases as we age.

It is therefore essential to implement all the solutions that technology and research give us to ensure a better vision and future health for young people.

Research over the last 5 years has shown that peripheral vision, i.e. the vision in the external part of our visual field, is related to myopic progression.

Miyosmart lenses with DIMS (Defocus Incorporated Mulitple Segments) technology therefore have a "classic" central area of ​​9mm for distance vision (where the correction of myopia and astigmatism necessary for the correct vision) and a peripheral area of ​​microlenses that creates a Peripheral Defocus that slows down the axial elongation, i.e. the myopic progression.

3-year studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Myopia Research Center demonstrated the effectiveness of the lens in reducing myopic progression, averaging 60% in children aged 8 to 13.