Progressive Eyeglass Lens

Video Transcript

"The next option we’re going to talk about ladies is going to be the no-line bifocal or the progressive lens. This is for those of you that need it for far-sighted or near-sighted, for far-sighted and near-sighted vision. You need both, you have it up close to read and you have to use them to drive. Very convenient, if you’ve had to have reading glasses it’s hard to kind of to take them off when you have to talk to somebody, then put them back on when you have to go read a menu, it can be very annoying. So this is a great option of convenience for those of you who need your vision corrected for both, your far and near distances. It used to be that the no-line progressive lens, you had to get these huge glass lenses, for instance you had to go with something like this. This isn’t all that huge but it’s a lot deeper and I think a little bit, this is I think a little less contemporary than a lot of our other frames. Let’s say you wanted to do this frame right below it, you can do a progressive no line bifocal in those glasses, okay you can do a lot shorter distances, what we do when we measure a progressive lens, is we take a fitting or sitting height. We measure where your pupils are in the lenses and from your pupil down starts progression, there will be an intermediate area and then right underneath the intermediate area is going to be your up close vision, above your pupil of course is going to be your distance vision so you can drive, okay. A lot of advances have been made; there is probably over a hundred different progressive lenses that you could form. At my office we use roughly maybe about ten at most. So ask your optician, ask your optical associate what lenses they recommend for you. Lots of different types for different needs, if you don’t need them quite so much for distance but you need to have them for reading, there is an option lens for that. There’s another option if you need them both for distance and up close equally, so again, ask your optician about these lenses, make sure that they are for you. Like I said, if you’ve tried them maybe five years ago, a lot of advances have been made you know in that five year time span. So check out your progressive lenses generally speaking at your opticians they have a trial period that if you can’t wear them or you don’t like them within sixty days they’ll switch you out into something else. "