The Curvature of the Cornea Must Remain Constant

When I found that it was possible to change the curvature of the whole eye by means of ortho C, it went against the grain of conventional wisdom. I was told that it could not be done even though I was in the process of doing it. And while I was in the process of doing what people said could not be done, I found that it implies adhering to another condition which also seems impossible: the curvature of the cornea must not change.

So what happens during the reversal process can be summarized as follows: the curvature of your cornea has to remain constant while the ortho C lens alters the curvature of the eyeball and the lens of your eye. Although it sounds incredible, I have already proved that ortho C changes the curvature of the “rest of the eye” for the better in my paper Proving That Ortho C Changes the Curvature of the Lens and Eyeball. Here, I will prove that the cornea remains unchanged while ortho C alters the “rest of the eye”. (And in another paper, I will even prove that it “smooths” out the cornea instead to reduce your astigmatism.)

Your Improvement in Visual Acuity Is Not Due to Ortho K

One way to prove that ortho C does not change the curvature of the cornea is to indicate that your improvement in your visual acuity is due to ortho C instead of ortho K.

Your improvement in vision is not due to ortho K because:

• In severe cases of myopia, your improvement in visual acuity is a multiple of the difference in curvature between the ortho C contact lens and the cornea. It is not equal to or limited to the difference between the curvature of the contact lens and the cornea—as in the case of ortho K.
  
• In severe cases of myopia, your improved visual acuity does not just takes place once and then come to a halt. The ortho C lens continues to improve your vision progressively. Ortho K cannot produce this phenomenon.
• In severe cases of myopia, regardless of how much your vision improves, the curvature of the cornea does not change. So the improvement in your visual acuity has to be attributed to something else—namely, to the lens or eyeball or both.

An Experiment to Prove that the Cornea Remains Unchanged

The “multiplier effect” of the ortho C lens will not work if it depresses the cornea instead of “drawing” on it. The only way a progressive improvement can take place is when the cornea does not change. If your cornea remains relatively stable over the range of the “multiplier effect”, then it proves that ortho C does not alter the curvature of the cornea.

From first hand experience and from the experiences of those who have tried ortho C, I know that the cornea does not change. Take my case for example. The curvature of my cornea remained relatively stable while my visual acuity improved substantially. I kept track of any changes to the curvature of my cornea as well as to my visual acuity over a period of almost ten years.

I did not spend all that time just on improving my vision. I have spent a number of years researching other matters as well. For example, I intentionally made my vision worse several times by wearing a thicker lens to prove that you cannot mix ortho K and plain contact lens therapy. I also made my astigmatism worse to prove that ortho C can reduce your astigmatism. After I improved my vision, I did not wear the ortho K lenses for a while to test its durability, et cetera. (But ortho C was still capable of improving my vision even after I intentionally made my vision worse.)

Before I started ortho C, the curvature of my cornea is as follows: for the right eye, the curvature was 43.50/43.50; and for the left eye, it was 42.50/43.75. Those figures are expressed in diopters. The number on the top of the fraction (the numerator) is the horizontal curvature, and the number below (the denominator) is the vertical curvature of the cornea.

The curvature of my right and left cornea ten years later were as follows: for the right eye, the curvature was 43.25/43.62; and for the left eye, the curvature was 42.50/43.75. When you compared the latest curvatures of my right and left cornea to the curvature of the right and left cornea when I first started, you will find that the curvature of the right eye is almost the same and that the curvature of the left eye is identical. If you take an average between the horizontal curvature and the vertical curvature of the right eye, you will find that it is very close to the curvature of the right eye when I first started ortho C. The curvature of the cornea may change slightly during the “reversal” process. If it changes by 0.25 diopter, that’s normal.

The curvature of my right and left cornea did not change because:

• The “flatness” of the lenses used to “reduce” my nearsightedness were minimal. They were fitted according to specifications. Their “flatness” was 1.50 diopters.
• The material of the lens was “flexible” instead of “hard”.
• The wearing time was only between ten to fifteen minutes, and I wore the lenses only once each day.

The “multiplier effect” is more obvious when you apply ortho C to “correct” mild cases of myopia. Your vision can become normal by wearing the lenses just once for five minutes. It would be even more unlikely that such an improvement is due to ortho K because it is difficult for an ortho K lens with a minimal “flatness” to “flatten” out the cornea by just wearing it once for five minutes. I have corrected dozens of cases of mild myopia without changing the curvature of the cornea.

Thus ortho C does not alter the curvature of the cornea.

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