Improve Your Vision Without Glasses, Daytime Contacts or Surgery

Imagine wearing contact lenses comfortably while you sleep — and then removing them and enjoying 20/20 vision during waking hours without contacts or glasses.

If it sounds too good to be true, you might be surprised to discover it's already possible.

Recently approved by the PDA, this promising new treatment for near-sightedness, known as corneal refractive therapy or CRT, may be the best-kept secret in eyecare today.

"CRT sounds complicated at first, but the therapy is actually rather simple," says Dr. Pegueros. "With this approach — which can correct nearsightedness (myopia) alone or combined with mild astigmatism (structural irregularity in the eye) — you simply put on a pair of specially designed contact lenses at bedtime.

"While you sleep, the lenses gently reshape the front part of the eye. In simple terms, the upward slope of the cornea becomes a little steeper," Dr. Pegueros says. "This very slight shift in its position is enough to correct the flawed focusing angle in most patients who are nearsighted."

The cornea holds its new position throughout the following day  correcting nearsightedness without glasses or contacts. Each night at bedtime, the patient inserts the CRT contacts and takes them out the next morning, reversing the normal contacts routine.

Along with eliminating glasses and contacts during waking hours, CRT is virtually risk-free for patients. Unlike laser vision correction, CRT has only temporary effects on the eyes and doesn't alter their physical structure.

"Let's face it: If you want to see great at work or play without worrying about glasses and contacts, it's pretty hard to beat a system that can give you 20/20 vision throughout the day simply by wearing these comfortable devices while you sleep."

In spite of its advantages, most eyecare consumers don't yet know about CRT.

"The basic CRT lens has only been on the market about two years," says Dr. Pegueros. "Sooner or later, CRT is going to change the way many people go about improving their eyesight."