Lenses: Know Your Lens Options
Did you know that your eye muscles can expend as much energy proportionately as your leg muscles would if you walked 50 miles? Your eyesight is important so you need to take the time to select the best vision solution for you and your lifestyle. Today we will discuss key lens options available to you.
Your eye care professional can give you further information and guidance
Single Vision Lenses
This all-purpose lens is available in all materials and provides vision correction for one viewing area.
The corrected area can be for far or near distance.
Multi focal Lenses
are recommended when you require correction for both distance and near in one pair of glasses. Available as no-line progressives, bifocals and trifocals.
No-Line Progressives
are designed to allow you to see at a distance (driving a vehicle), intermediate (looking at the dashboard), and near (reading a map) with no lines or sections.
The absence of bifocal lines makes this lens the most desirable cosmetically. You will also enjoy continuous vision from far to near with this lens design.
Bifocals 
-provide both far and near correction in one lens. A visible line divides the two areas providing a visible segment for near viewing.
Trifocals
-are a variation of the bifocals.
This lens provides you with correction in three areas – distance, intermediate, and near.
Aspherics
-reduce the effect of your eyes looking larger or smaller behind your glasses.
-The image remains clear when you look through the sides of the lenses. —The lenses are also thinner and lighter.
Atoric Lenses
-helps reduce visual distortion and allows for a wider field of vision. A thinner, lighter more cosmetically appealing lens.
Your eye care professional can recommend which design best suits your vision
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