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Representing the Pediatric Clinical Committee, Edward Wilson, MD gave a talk at the ASCRS Symposium's "Hot Topics" session on Saturday, April 28th. His talk was entitled "Eye growth in second decade of life". There is growing interest in this issue coinciding with the use of mulitfocal IOLs in pediatric cataract patients. Any changes in axial length that would occur over time could have obvious potential for myopic shift in children and adolescents who have had lens exchange. So to investigate this issue, the authors evaluated 70 eyes and compared axial length data starting at an initial age of 10-18 yrs and continued until the cohort had reached 11.6 yrs to their early 20s. They found that axial lengths continue to change all through the teenage years and early 20s. Interestingly, eyes grew slightly more in response to implantation of multifocal IOLs. These data have important implications for the use of multifocal IOLs in teenagers.