Prescription Glasses

Present now, hi-tech progressive lens glasses are gaining popularity. The background is that presbyopia makes it a necessity to wear multifocal prescription eyeglasses. It can be quite bothersome for the majority of presbyopic patients to make switches between two pairs of prescription glasses for nearsightedness and presbyopia respectively. Most of those individuals would like to use reading glasses only in office or at home during long terms of materials reading. When they are forced to change focusing ranges, from the near to the distant or vice versa, two different pairs of prescription glasses will lead to solely inconvenience. The great US founder Benjamin Franklin first invented bifocal eyeglasses which were used to eliminate such an inconvenience. A pair of bifocal spectacles can offer both near and distance corrected vision. It is no longer needed to change different pairs. (more…)

Progressive reading glasses or no-line bifocal glasses are really advanced enough that many individuals have chosen to replace those traditional bifocal or trifocal reading glasses with progressive ones. There are common advantages of progressive lenses. Its name reflects that there is a gradient of powers in a lens, providing smooth and seamless vision correction at several distances. Compared with lined bifocal or trifocal lenses, progressive lenses never cause image jump. Users of traditional bifocal or trifocal glasses usually experience image jump because of the separated zones in a lens. Another widely reported advantage of progressive lenses is that they have no visible line on them. Wearers can get more natural look by wearing these lenses without a line. All these benefits are true, which explain the popularity of those progressive lenses in the modern times. However, customers still need to consider other factors that may be still decisive. One of them is the price. Progressive lenses are often much more expensive than regular eyeglass lenses and bifocal and trifocal lenses. For most folks, it is necessary to purchase discount progressive glasses. (more…)

Since the invention of the first pair of Varilux progressive glasses with a modern design in 1953, superior progressive eyeglasses have gained much popularity among the public. This is well-founded due to their incomparable advantages over bifocal and trifocal glasses. It is absolutely understandable for many customers to pursue these benefits. Many of them choose to switch from traditional bifocal or trifocal lenses into progressive ones. In recent years, there is also another phenomenon that many customers resort to online stores for progressive glasses, even if they involve sophisticated factors. The most convincing reason of such a practice is the higher prices of progressive glasses. Buying progressive lens eye glasses online is the most acceptable for some individuals. They are willing to spend more time in the interacting with the salesmen, in favor of considerable savings. But to some extent, those online progressive glasses are probably less competent in offering individual vision correction. (more…)

Progressive eye glasses are glasses which are always applied to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation. Just as its name implies, the progressive lens is of a gradient of increasing lens power, where there is no addition power at the top while a maximum addition power at the bottom. The lens power is determined by the specific eyesight condition of a specific wearer. Compared with the bifocal and trifocal glasses, progressive eye glasses avoid the discontinuities, or say image-jumps, in the visual field, which maybe result in discomfort and dizziness of the wearer. (more…)

Without enough experience, some people may wonder what progressive eye glasses are. First of all, they belong to prescription spectacles which are used to deal with vision defects. Living in the modern society, an ordinary individual is quite likely to suffer nearsightedness at a certain age. Excessive eye use during school years is the common reason for myopia. In most cases, eye care practitioners would advise young patients with nearsightedness to wear a pair of prescription eyeglasses. With such a device, normal vision can be temporarily restored. They will still need to replace new lenses with a high power. In fact, these prescription glasses solely for nearsightedness are classified into the single vision category. Before age 40, it is enough for most individuals to use single vision glasses. But after such an age, the situation will probably change. Presbyopia usually starts to develop in folks in their 40s. This vision problem caused by natural aging in the eyes is associated with the decreased ability to focus close up objects properly. Presbyopic patients usually have to hold newspapers or books at an arms distance. This is the most typical symptom of presbyopia. (more…)

Recently, a very eye-catching trend has struck the glasses market, namely, a lot of people are arduous for progressive lens glasses. I am greatly astonished at first, for I have never seen such great and powerful wave of panic buying in the industry. However, after analyzing the facts behind the phenomenon, I am convinced by that progressive lens glasses are really nice. Here are some of the merits that I have detected from those glasses. (more…)