Understanding Different Types of Eyeglasses

Video Transcript

"I’m Melissa with Woolenton Optometry for Expert Village here to tell you how to choose your eyeglasses. Most people need at least two glasses to fit into their everyday life-style, and one of the most important things you can do when you pick out a pair of glasses is to make sure that you tell your optician what kind of activities you do, what kind of job you have, just anything that might help them better choose, or help you choose the glasses that might be best for you. One of the main things to keep in mind is that if you do a lot of computer work a line bifocal like this one here is not going to be as effective as the progressive on this side. The progressive offers an intermediate zone that allows for you to see the computer without having to lift your chin all the way up and getting the neck ache and things of that sort. Another thing that people don’t really realize is that if you’re an avid golfer or play a lot of tennis, or a lot of sports you don’t really want to have a bifocal at all in those lenses, you’d want to do single vision. You’d also want to do a poly-carbonate lens which is a impact resistant lens, It is, is less likely to chip and to shatter if you were to get hit while you were playing sports or so forth. And then the last thing that everybody needs is a pair of sunglasses, if you’re driving into the sun, you know your glasses aren’t going to be protecting your eyes the way the sunglasses will. You need to make sure that you have those to help prevent cataracts and uh, macular degeneration in the future. One other thing to keep in mind, is that if you work in an environment where you have a lot of debris falling around you want to make sure you have a pair of safety glasses, poly-carbonate lenses again would be the best, also you want to make sure you have an extra scratch coating on the lens to prevent against severe scratching because especially dust can scratch your lenses pretty deeply and then there is no way to really fix that unless you get new lenses. And that’s why it’s important to tell your optician the uses for your glasses. "