Method and apparatus for limiting growth of eye length

A therapeutic treatment method for preventing, ameliorating, or reversing eye-length-related disorders, the therapeutic treatment method comprising:

• identifying, in a patient, an eye-length-related disorder;
• and
• inhibiting further lengthening of the patient's eye by providing the patient with a therapeutic device comprising a first ophthalmic lens, the first ophthalmic lens comprising:
• a first area of the first ophthalmic lens including a plurality of first elements selected from the group consisting of:
• (i) bumps on a surface of the first lens;
• (ii) depressions on the surface of the first lens;
• (iii) first translucent inclusions in a first lens material;
• and
• (iv) first transparent inclusions in the first lens material, the first transparent inclusions having a refractive index different from that of the first lens material;
• and
• a second area of the first ophthalmic lens surrounded by the first area of the first ophthalmic lens, said second area being free of the first elements,
• wherein the first elements are dot-shaped elements,
• wherein the dot-shaped elements have a dot density in a range between a first value and a second value, the first value exceeding 0 dots per mm2 and being smaller than the second value, the second value equal to 8 dots per mm2.