When purchasing a pair of eyeglasses, one of the most important choices you will make is which lens material will best serve you. At our practice, we provide the latest technology in lens materials and we will help you with the selection that best suits your needs and your prescription. That is our promise!
High-Index Lenses:These modern lenses are lighter and thinner with flatter curves than conventional materials (glass or resin) and usually provide better optics. These lenses provide superior cosmetic and clinical benefits to high prescriptions wearers.
Lenses That Darken in the Sun: Glass photochromic lenses have been available for 30 years. The first successful plastic lenses were introduced in 1991 and have rapidly expanded the field of photochromic lenses. For your convenience, we work with all photochromic lenses. The most popular are called transition lenses, that are clear indoors, but darken in the sun. This way you can use one pair of lenses as both regular eyeglasses, as well as sunglasses outdoors, while keeping the prescription. Transitions absorb more than 99 percent UVA rays and 100 percent of UVB rays.
Polycarbonate Lenses: Polycarbonate lenses are made to appear lighter and thinner, exceed all others in impact resistance and provide substantial benefits to all patients. It is always the lens of choice for children, for anyone participating in sports, maintaining an active lifestyle and for patients with no vision or reduced vision in one or both eyes.
Progressive Lenses: The primary advantage of progressive lenses is that they provide clear vision for all distances, the closest to how natural vision is before the onset of presbyopia or difficulty reading small print after the age of 40. Patients purchasing their first bifocals are ideal candidates for progressives. When the patient has been wearing conventional bifocals, it could be difficult to adapt into progressive lenses. However, progressive lenses tend to be more convenient, and it's better to start with a pair sooner rather than later. A clear progression from one area of focus to the next in the center of the lens is achieved by a number of curves present that blend together on the sides, these side areas do not provide clear vision. So you'll get the best vision when you point your nose directly at whatever you want to see.
Glass: Glass is the traditional material for eye glasses, and has an advantage of providing very stable and precise optics. However, glass lenses may have less resistance to impact than that of plastic or other types of lenses.
Single Vision: Single Vision lenses provide general-purpose vision, but also provide special functions in distance or near corrections for presbyopic patients. These lenses are also useful for computer users, musicians and other occupations.
Aspheric Lenses: The advantage of aspheric lenses is that they provide better vision and better cosmetics than other lenses. The aspheric front curves of plus lenses flatten as they approach the edge of the lens. The curves of minus lenses steepen near the edge, providing thinner edges for minus aspherics. They are available in a variety of forms and materials.
Flat Top Bifocals: Flat Tops are the most used bifocal lenses, and for good reason. They can be ordered in a variety of widths, each designed to serve specific patient needs. Bifocals are lenses that provide both far distance and near (reading) sight correction.
Trifocals: Trifocals are lenses intended to provide clear vision for that "arm's length" distance that is out-of-focus when the bifocal is +1.75 or more. Trifocals are also available with a deeper intermediate zone for occupational use.
Occupational Needs: An occupational lens can be as simple as a single vision lens or as sophisticated as a quadrafocal lens (trifocal on bottom with upside down Flat Top on top). Even a single vision lens can serve as a very effective occupational lens, providing special on-the-job visual benefits. Depending on your occupation and everyday activities, we can assist in finding the right lens for your individual needs..
Sports Glasses: While practicing a sport or being active in general, everyday eye glasses can get in the way and be very uncomfortable. We have a wide selection of sports eyewear so that you can maintain the best sight possible while having an active lifestyle.
Computer Lenses: Because computers are a basic part of everyday life, all types of people use computers, many of which have special visual needs. Single vision lenses designed with gradually changing powers, such as Access and Readables, are very useful for computer uses. E/D and FD trifocals are as well.
Polarized Sun Lenses: Polarized sun lenses are high performance plano sun and sports glasses. They are by far the most effective way to block reflected glare.
Scratch Protection: Scratch protection is an essential add-on to lenses. They minimize concern about handling scratches and they keep your lenses newer and scratch free, longer.
UV Blocking Treatment: Ultraviolet radiation from sunlight can seriously harm the human eye. Our labs can treat lenses to block UV by tinting them with special UV blocking chemical materials. UV protection is highly recommended to all of our patients.
Anti/Reflection (AR) Coatings: AR coatings allow patients to look better and see better. They eliminate glares and reflections that others see, as well as eliminate internal reflections so that the lens-wearer sees better.
