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I've heard that there are some eye drops in the works that temporarily reverse this process, so that instead of wearing glasses or contacts people may be using eye drops daily for better vision.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-fda-approved-eye-...

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Actually, those eye drops are to treat presbyopia which uses a different mechanism.

Presbyopia typically affects older people and presents as long-sightedness (not short-sight like I described earlier). Presbyopia causes the lens in the eye to lose its elasticity and causes the eye to focus light behind the retina.

Curiously, a similar effect (longsight) can be caused by the eyeball being too short (hypermetropia).

That said the eye drops sound like pretty cool treatment.

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