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Secondary objectives include evaluating changes in total corneal refractive power, the Q value, and epithelial thickness.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n \n This prospective quasi-experimental pre-post study was conducted at a private ophthalmology clinic (Licari Vision Clinic, Tarragona, Spain). Participants were patients aged 8 to 21 years with myopia ranging from \u22121.00 to \u22125.00 D who underwent nighttime orthokeratology for 1 month. Outcome measurements included Pentacam tomography, anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT), and Zernike analysis, all performed in the morning 1 to 3 hours after lens removal. Cycloplegic refraction was performed at baseline only to confirm eligibility criteria and inform orthokeratology lens design. A minimum of 23 participants was required to detect a change of \u22650.14 \u03bcm in anterior corneal spherical aberration (\u03b1=.05; \u03b2=.05; power=95%; SD 0.166 \u03bcm), incorporating a 20% dropout rate. The unit of analysis will be the eye, including both eyes of each participant. To account for the nonindependence of contralateral eyes in the same participant\u2019s within-subject repeated measurements, the primary and secondary outcomes will be analyzed using linear mixed-effects models with a fixed effect for time (baseline vs 1 month) and a random intercept for each participant. A significance level of\n P<\/jats:italic>\n <.05 will be applied in all cases.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n The protocol received a favorable ethics opinion from the Drug Research Ethics Committee (\n Comit\u00e9 de \u00c9tica de la Investigaci\u00f3n con medicamentos<\/jats:italic>\n [CEIm]) of the Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research (\n Institut d'Investigaci\u00f3 Sanit\u00e0ria Pere Virgili<\/jats:italic>\n [IISPV]) in October 2024 (CEIm Code 159\/2024) and was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06775509). This study received no external funding. Recruitment was completed. Data collection has been finalized, and data analysis is currently underway. 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