MiyoSmart spectacle lens

Hoya Lens Australia’s MiyoSmart lens, a new non-invasive myopia management solution for children of all ages, is now available in New Zealand and Australia.

“This is the myopia management option that the Australian and New Zealand market has been waiting for,” said Craig Chick, Hoya Lens Australia’s managing director. “We are proud to provide such an effective treatment with award winning technology.”

The MiyoSmart lens was developed in collaboration with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and includes Hoya’s patented Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments (DIMS) technology, creating a myopic defocus effect.

A Hong Kong university study found wearing the defocus spectacle lenses daily significantly slowed myopia progression and axial elongation in myopic children aged 8 to 13. The two-year, double-blind, randomised clinical trial concluded that children wearing defocus lenses had 60% less myopia progression compared with those wearing single-vision lenses.

Hoya’s DIMS technology won the Grand Prize, Grand Award and Gold Medal at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva in April 2018.