Metal Frame Advice

Video Transcript

"I’m Melissa with Woolenton Optometry for Expert Village here to tell you how to choose your eyeglasses. The other type of frame that you can purchase is a metal frame; with a metal frame you do have more versatilities with that. There are titanium frames like this one here, they are lighter in weight, they are hypoallergenic and they are a little bit tougher than most frames out there on the market but this one is also a semi-rimless frame where you have the frame on the top but not on the bottom, it gives more of a look that there are no glasses on at all so if you don’t want people to notice your glasses then this is a good look to have. One thing to keep in mind about a semi-rimless frame however is since the lens is exposed at the bottom then they are easier to chip so if you’re an active person you might want to steer away from that. The other type of metal, of metal frame is a full metal frame like this. This one is also a memory metal. Memory metals are the ones that can twist and bend and keep their shape a lot easier than most, but keep in mind memory metals are still not indestructible and you still have to care for them like any other pair of glasses. And then the last kind is a drill mount frame like you have here where you just have two temples and a bridge and then no frame around the lens at all. This is great, if again you don’t want the look of glasses on your face. I always say it’s the closest thing to wearing contacts without having to actually wear contacts. One thing to keep in mind about the drill mount frames though is that on the backside you want to look and make sure that there aren’t screws going through the lens you want to make sure it’s a press lock system which just means that there are little plastic grommets that go into the lens and the frame is actually pressed into that plastic piece. These are more durable and are less likely to chip in the future and those are the characteristics of the metal frames. "