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Authentic stories and expert strategies for success in myopia management
Phantagox Productions is dedicated to telling meaningful stories with authenticity through content creation, education, and live events. Through our podcast and brand, The Myopia Mindset, we share the insights, strategies, and real-world experiences that lead to success in myopia management.
Dr. Cary Herzberg on why the surprise rejection stung, what the advisory committee will weigh, and why an approved drop changes everything for preventive eye care.
He inherited a handful of poorly-fit ortho-K patients, gave himself six months to master the specialty, and ended up co-founding a lens design company. Dr. Sukh Gill returns for a deep-dive interview.
Here’s a question Dr. Cary Herzberg wants every optometrist to ask in the mirror: if you dropped every vision care plan tomorrow, could your practice survive?
The "high myopia as disease" debate, atropine + ortho-k combo therapy, and axial length as standard of care.
For all the noise around artificial intelligence, the most useful question for a myopia practice isn’t “Will this replace me?” It’s “Can this help me do the work I already know I should be doing?”
HHS and the Surgeon General issue a warning on children’s screen use. The FDA rejects Sydnexis’ SYD-101 — despite the STAR trial meeting its primary endpoint. Hoya’s MiYOSMART iQ posts some of the strongest myopia control data ever reported.
Dr. Cary Herzberg — 40+ years in specialty optometry — on the insurance model burning doctors out, the specialty care exit ramp, and whether the profession can save itself.
Every month there’s more happening in myopia management than any one clinician can keep up with — new studies, new products, new debates. We go through the five most important stories from Q1 2026 — and we don’t hold back on the disagreements.
Dr. Cary Herzberg lays down four decades of frustration: optometry has had the data, the products, and the patients in the chair since the early 1980s — and is still, in 2026, asking how to get colleagues to start.