By MOYA ZHANG

A Melbourne trio of doctors are hoping to change the field of optometry with their new corrective treatment for amblyopia, a condition also known as lazy eye.

The treatment, called Amblyoptica, aims to correct lazy eye in children before they reach adulthood.

Lazy eye occurs when the brain cannot process information correctly from both eyes, resulting in an inability to see in three-dimensional vision. Symptoms include eyes that appear to wander inward or outward.

Amblyoptica managing director Dr Stuart Hazell said their treatment differed from traditional methods.

"We believe that our approach will offer advantages because we’re encouraging the lazy eye to fill in information that we partly occlude from the good eye," he said.

Janith Samarakoon, who grew up with lazy eye, opted for a traditional method of surgery to correct his vision.

"I had the operation in Year 8 and now cosmetically it's fine, but I wish there was a way I could have done it earlier to have avoided all those years of worrying about it and being self-conscious about it," Mr Samarakoon said.

He said Amblyoptica could be ground-breaking for children.

"Even with the operation it’s still not perfect, so if there’s technology to do that, that’ll be awesome for kids who’ve got lazy eye and squints and that sort of thing."

The founders of Amblyoptica are hoping the public will see eye to eye with their new vision, and aim to raise $25,000 by the end of this month to start clinical trials.

"As it currently stands, the inventor of the system is the only person who’s fully used the system," Dr Hazell said.

"We are wanting to get an ethics approval clearance and get a number of people into a trial that we can publish and use that to hopefully attract investors."