The Heffington Family has been filling prescriptions with precision for over 45 years. At Opti*lanD, we offer you the World in Sight!
What makes your eyeglasses special?
What makes them special is that each pair of prescription glasses is unique and different from every other pair of prescription glasses. How is that possible? Because every pair of prescription glasses is made to your unique requirements – your “prescription” – your unique measurements: vision correction, shape and size of your eyes, shape of your face, and your preferences and choices for special lens features and frame styles. Your glasses are like custom-tailored clothes – unique to you!
Prescription glasses are made in “optical laboratories”. Contrary to the name, these “laboratories” do not use beakers and test tubes. But they do use the specifications and quality control of a high-tech laboratory. Optical laboratories specialize in producing custom-made, unique-for-your-prescription glasses for each individual order they receive. Optical laboratories supply those glasses to the eyecare professionals who serve you.
A Lens for Every Lifestyle
Your Lifestyle – Your Choices
When it comes to choosing a lens, one style no longer fits all.
What's your lifestyle?
Athlete = High impact resistant lenses
Computer Specialist = Computer lenses
Fisherman = Polarized sun lenses
Indoor/Outdoor Activities = Photochromic lenses
Driving, Working, Everyday Living = Progressive lenses
These are just some of the choices. Today, there’s a lens choice or combination for all your activities. Be sure to discuss your unique lifestyle with your eyecare professional.
Plastic (CR-39)
CR-39 plastic lenses are the industry standard material. Available in most all
prescriptions, and tintable to most any shade and color.
High-Index plastic
Thinner, lighter high-index – technologically advanced high-index lenses create a thinner profile for
those with strong prescriptions. These lenses are more
comfortable as well as cosmetically desirable.
Polycarbonate
Polycarbonate is the most impact resistant material available.
By nature, polycarbonate can also be classsified as hi-index.
Preferred material for those with limited or no sight in either eye,
as well as for sports, occupational safety, and anyone needing
superior eye protection.
When your little athletes suit up to play ball, make sure that protective eyewear is part of the uniform.
Talk to your eyecare professional about high mpact resistant
shatter-resistant sports glasses. Many of the styles for children
are fashioned after those worn by professional athletes, so your
kids can look just like the pros.
Your lifestyle will affect your eyecare professional’s recommendations
for various types of lens options. Consider your vision requirements
for the following activities and discuss your choices with your eyecare
professional team.
Single Vision
This all-purpose Lens is available in all lens materials,
and can be used for distance or near vision correction.
Multifocals
This category includes many lens options. Multifocals are prescribed
when both distance and near correction are needed together in a single lens.
No-line progressives
Correct for far (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.
Bifocals
Provide both far (driving)and near (reading a map) correction
in one lens.
Trifocals
Are basically progressivelenses with visible lines. The
majority of the lens is for distance viewing, while the center portion is
divided into intermediate and near-viewing segments.
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 enhancelens 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.
Computer lenses
If you’re viewing a computer video display terminal(VDT) for more than two hours a
work-related and hobby or day, you may need variable focus
other recreational uses require lenses. These lenses help correct
task-specific viewing for the best visual pro-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
Sport lenses are available in many visual and/or safety requirement.
Be sure to discuss with your dispenser the tasks you do at work, and also what eyewear, so tough high impact resistant
you do in your spare time. lenses are most commonly recommended.
Did you know that ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is associated with the development of cataracts? It also can damage the retina – the part of the eye that picks up images and transmits them to the brain.
Make sure the whole family is protected from harmful UV rays. Ask your eyecare professional about lenses that provide UV protection.
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
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.
PHOTOCHROMIC LENSES
Once available only in glass lens material, photochromic lenses are available
today in most lens styles. Sometimes called Transitions,or Sunsensers, photomchromic lenses
change color when the user goes either indoor or outdoor. Photochromic lenses
darken and lighten according to light exposure. If the wearer
is in the sun, photochromics darken, if indoors, the lenses are light in color.
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.
When selecting eyewear, keep these safety factors in mind and be sure to discuss any safety needs with your eyecare professional team.