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The following features and lens treatments can be added to your lens material and design to produce a custom lens sytem that best suits you.
Your eyecare professional can recommend which design best suits yourvision correction. Ask our staff to further explain and demonstrateany of these lens options.
Don't forget the kids menu!
For children we recommend high impact resistant lenses. The mostimpact resistant lenses on the market, they are a great choice for theactive youngster or teen. They combine a UV filter and scratchresistant coating to give your children overall protection. Can becombined with photochromics to add protection from bright glaringsunlight.
Lens Design - the basic vocabulary of lenses
This all-purpose lens is available in all materials and provides vision correction for one viewing area. The corrected area can be for far distance or near distance.
These will be recommended when you require correction for both distance and near viewing areas in one single pair of glasses. Available as no-line progressives, bifocals and trifocals.
These are designed to allow you to see at distance (driving a vehicle), intermediate (looking at the dashboard), and near (reading a map) with no lines or sections. The absence of bifocal lines makes this lens the most desirable cosmetically. You will also enjoy continuous vision from far to near with this lens design.
Bifocals provide both far and near correction in one lens. A visible line divides the two areas providing a visible segment for near viewing.
Trifocals are a variation of the bifocals. This double-line lens provides you with correction in three areas - distance, intermediate and near.
These reduce the effect of your eyes looking larger or smaller behind your glasses. Plus, the image remains more clear when you look throught he sides of the lenses. And, the lenses are thinner and lighter.
These help reduce visual distortion and allows for a wider field of vision. A thinner, lighter more cosmetically appealing lens.
Specialty Lenses - for work and play
Special occupational designs allow us to customize lenses for almost any occuaption, hobby, visual, or safety requirement. Your lifestyle information will help us understand how you use your eyes and identify visual needs.
If you work at a computer at least two hours per day, you may need a computer lens. These lenses are custom designed to provide the best vision for you while working at the computer. The lenses combine a variety of features including anti-reflective coatings for speacial filters.
These improve safety and perfomance and enhance your enjoyment. Sports lenses come in a variety of colors, designs and treatments. Impact resistant and light weight are key considerations.
Lens Treatments - feature you should consider
The sun's ultraviolet rays pose potential harm to your eyes. We recommend UV protection on all our lenses. UV filters for your lenses accomplish the same thing as sunscreen does for your skin - shield your eyes from harmful UV rays. A 'must have' for adults and children to promote healthy vision.
This is highly recommended to protect your lenses form everyday wear-and-tear. Protecting your lens surface prolongs the usefulness of your lenses and protects your investment in good vision.
This is a special coating that reduces distracting reflections. The results are: more transmitted light, better quality of vision, improved night vision, and reduced eye fatigue. Great for working on a computer and driving at night, these lenses also offer a cosmetically appealing "invisible lens look" that makes the lens "disappear" and shows your eyes moe clearly.
These lenses darken in the sunlight and lighten indoors. Improved technology provides you with a lens that is virtually clear idoors and as dark as sunglasses outdoors and protects you from harmful UV. Available in almost all materials and designs; ask our dispenser for a demonstration of this technology.
Lens Materials - what's best for your prescription and lifestyle
Plastic lenses are lighter than glass lenses and can be tinted to almost any color and shade.
Advancements in technolgy continur to give us thinner and lighter lenses for your strongter prescriptions. Comfort and cosmetics without compromise!
Our office recommends high impact resistant lenses for two good reasons: comfort, becasue of their incredible light wieght, and safety, due to their high impact resistance. We recommend these for children, teens, active adults, occupational safety, and anyone who needs superior protection.
Glass offers superior optics and is the most scratch resistant material available. However, glass must be specially treated for impact resistance, may be heavier, and may not be an option in certain rim styles.
Sun Lenses
These are the best option for climinating glare. Hunters, boaters, fishermen, golfers, and drivers are just a few who can benefit from plarized lens' glare blocking properties. Any surface can create glare in sunlight, especially wate, snow, sand, windows, vehicles, and buildings. Polarization eases eye strain and fatigue in bright sunlight. Available in different colors, materials and designs.
Tint for sun lenses are usually meduim to dark shades. They can be solid or gradient. Almost any color is available.
Not only do they look cool, they ARE cool! Mirrored coatings provide a reflective surface that makes the eye almost invisible to others, while keeping your eyes protected from glare. Mirrors come in a variety of styles.
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