In the past, clinicians have put forward anecdotal views about how to manage myopia. The first, evidence-based review only appeared in 2002 and, drawing on just 10 randomised controlled trials about myopia at the time, concluded that neither soft contact lens, bifocal spectacle lenses nor atropine eye drops were recommended to manage childhood myopia! How times have changed.
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