Contact Lenses We at Mountain View Vision offer to you all major brands of contact lenses, from makers like Bausch & Lomb, Ciba Vision, CooperVision, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, and more. FREE OFFER Try a free trial pair of Johnson & Johnson's Acuvue or Ciba Vision's Night & Day contact lenses! Looking Good With AR Coated Lenses Lenses with an anti-reflective (AR) coating not only improve your vision, but they improve your appearance by reducing unwanted light reflection. Ask your eyecare professional to discuss the benefits of AR coated lenses, along with the best way to keep them like new. SUN LENSES should always be ultraviolet (UV) protective. Polarized lenses are the top pick for eliminating glare. Hunters, boaters and fishermen, golfers, and drivers are a few who benefit from polarized lens’ glare-cutting properties. Any surface can create glare in sunlight, including water, sand, snow, windows, vehicles, and buildings. Polarization eases eye stress and fatigue in the sun, and comes in several color and density options. Tinted lenses make up the majority of lenses can be tinted from light to very dark. Tints for sun lenses are usually medium to dark shades, and can be solid through the whole lens, or gradient, darker on top fading to lighter or clear at the bottom of the lens. Tints also come in a rainbow of color options. Mirrored lenses not only look cool, they are cool. Mirrored coatings provide a reflective surface that makes the eye virtually invisible to viewers, while keeping the wearers eyes protected from glare and heat. Mirrors come in a variety of colors to enhance tints and visual performance.

Frames & Lenses

To help you select the best lenses to serve your individual eyewear needs, here are a list of lens materials, lens designs and optional lens treatments you can choose... And we offer some advice on selecting frames that best fit you, your lifestyle and your look.

Your first decision involves the material in you want your new lenses made with. Next review the various lens designs. Lastly, read the background information on optional lens treatments; these options can substantially add to the appearance and wearing comfort of your new glasses.

LENS MATERIALS

Plastic: Conventional hard resin lenses are half the weight of glass lenses and can be tinted to almost any color and density. Hard resin lenses are more easily scratched than glass but can have an optional scratch protection applied. More impact resistant than glass, hard resin lenses do not require heat treating.

Polycarbonate: Polycarbonate lenses are the most impact-resistant lenses available and are always the best choice for young people and active patients. Polycarbonate lenses are high index and are usually the lightest, most comfortable lenses. They absorb all harmful UV light and can be made with ultra thin edges because of their unique strength.

Glass: For years glass was the only lens material available and glass still offers superior optics. the most scratch-resistant material, the primary disadvantage of glass is its weight, generally twice that of hard resin. Glass lenses are heat or chemically treated to increase impact resistance.

LENS DESIGNS

Single Vision: This all-purpose lens is available in all materials, and can be used for either distance or near vision correction.


Multifocals will be suggested when both distance and near correction are needed together in a single lens.

Bifocals provide both far (driving) and near (reading a map) correction in one lens.


Trifocals are basically progressive lenses with visible lines. The majority of the lens is for distance viewing, while the center portion is divided into intermediate and nearviewing segments.

No-line progressives correct for far (e.g., driving a vehicle), intermediate (viewing the dashboard), and near (reading a map) vision all in one lens. Because there is no visible line, progressives have the appearance of single-vision lenses and are, therefore, the most cosmetically desirable multifocal. Progressives are available in all lens materials.

Thinner, flatter lenses are recommended when a prescription is either "high-minus," meaning lenses are thicker at the outer edges, or "high-plus," when lenses are thicker in the middle. Flatter lenses enhance lens appearance by reducing edge or center thickness. They are lighter weight and can provide edge-to-edge visual clarity by utilizing an aspheric or atoric design.

Aspheric offers less magnification or minification of the eyes, as well as in images viewed. Edge-to-edge visual clarity means that as the eyes move, vision will remain clear rather than "blur out" when the viewer looks away from the center of the lens.


Atoric also helps reduce visual aberrations, allowing for a wider field of view as well as a cosmetically pleasing slim and lightweight lens. Ask your dispenser which flatter lens option – aspheric or atoric – is better for your particular vision correction.

Specialty lenses are recommended when certain work-related and hobby or other recreational uses require task-specific viewing for the best visual protection and/or performance.

Special industrial/occupational lenses occupational designs allow dispensers to customize lenses for virtually any occupational or hobby visual and/or safety requirement. Be sure to discuss with your dispenser the tasks you do at work, and also what you do in your spare time.


Computer lenses: if you’re viewing a computer video display terminal (VDT) for more than two hours a day, you may need variable focus lenses. These lenses help correct vision for the specified length of your eye to the computer screen and the immediate vicinity. A variety of computer- specific lenses include special filters, tints, and anti-reflective properties.


Sports lenses come in many designs, colors, and treatments for every sport. Safety is key with sports eyewear, so tough high impact resistant lenses are most commonly recommended.

Photochromic lenses -- sometimes called "comfort" lenses -- darken and lighten according to light exposure. If the wearer is in the sun, photochromics darken, if indoors, the lenses are light. Photochromic lenses are available in virtually all lens materials and lens designs. Ask your eyecare professional for a demonstration.

LENS TREATMENTS

UV protection – the sun’s ultraviolet rays pose potential harm to your eyes. UV protection on lenses accomplishes the same thing as sunscreen lotion on your skin –– it shields your eyes from harmful ultraviolet rays. Plastic and glass lenses may require UV coating, while high-index and high impact resistant lenses provide UV protection inherently in the lens material.


Scratch-resistance coatings – recommended to protect lenses from everyday wear-and-tear. Some materials, such as high impact resistant, high-index lenses, and several new plastic lens designs, include scratch protection.


Anti-reflective – dispensers suggest anti-reflective, or AR lenses, to help reduce eye fatigue in all situations, particularly while viewing computer screens and driving at night. In addition to enhancing vision by removing distracting reflections, AR lenses are cosmetically desirable, as the wearer’s eyes are clearly visible behind the lenses.

SELECTING FRAMES

Facial coloring and face shape are two very important factors to consider when choosing appropriate frames. Many eyewear professionals believe that the frame shape should contrast with the general shape of your face, and that the frame's size should be in scale your face's size and features.

In other words, by selecting an eyeglass frame which pleasantly contrasts with your face, you can balance and beautify your features. And, by choosing frames which echo your coloring, you can strengthen your appearance, and draw attention to your best features.

The first step is to determine your face shape (oval, round, rectangular). Frame shapes are chosen to decrease or de-accentuate the roundness of a round face, the squareness of a rectangular face, or the length or shortness of a face. To do this, we recommend rectangular frames for round-faced people (avoid round glasses), and oval or round frames for rectangular faced people (avoid rectangular frames). Long faces should avoid narrow glasses, short faces should avoid high glasses. People with oval shaped faces are not restricted.

Frame coloring should be chosen to match skin and hair tone, eye color, jewelry, and clothing colors. Some feel that eyewear should echo your personal best feature (such as a frames which match your hair color). The degree to which you deviate from this rule will show your interest in dressing "outside of the box." For example, black plastic frames on a very light skinned and fair-haired person shows much more of a statement that silver metal frames would.

If you have any questions about frames, lenses, or other vision concerns, please feel free to stop by or contact us:

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