Anti-Reflective: Is it Worth it?

Who Should Get Anti-Reflective on their Lenses?

We recommend that everybody gets anti-reflective on their lenses including children and people who do not wear their glasses often. What anti-reflective does is enable us to warranty your lenses for two years to be replaced as many times necessary in that time. For a lot of people this is enough of a reason to get it.

What are the Other Benefits of Anti-Reflective?

Anti-reflective has many benefits. If you have children the benefits we would highlight would be the two year warranty against scratching, the 99% reduction in glare the bounces off white surfaces or reflective surfaces such as paper, white boards, windshields or water, the UV protection, the smudge reduction, and the overall reduction of eye strain due to glare.

If you are a young adult we would point out the reduction in the size of halos around lights at night especially while driving, the UV protection, the reduction of eye strain while on the computer for extended periods, the scratch resistence, and the two year warranty.
If you are an adult who is in bifocals we would recommend it for all of the reasons listed above and it has a great benefit of letting more light into your eyes. As we age it takes more light to see in low-light situations, such as reading a menu in a dimmly lit restaurant. What anti-reflective does is reduce the amount of glare getting into your eyes and therefore increase the amount of true light enabling us to see better in these darker environments.

What to ask when Ordering your Glasses?

When ordering glasses your optician and/or optometrist should explain the benefits of anti-reflective and if they do not you can still ask. You want to make sure they sell a product they believe in, if not you might end up with a poor quality anti-reflective that will peel and craze and will annoy you more in the end than if you hadn't had anything in the first place. It's OK to ask your optician what brand of anti-reflective they use and to research it ahead of time. You want to know what you are spending your money on. Not all places that sell anti-reflective offer a warranty so be careful to ask about that too.
In my personal experience, the first place I worked at sold a horrible quality anti-reflective. We were kept in the dark about what brand it was and could not even tell patients if they asked, and couldn't have even if we wanted to. We were pushed to sell it, but hesitated to since it was such poor quality and it was not warrantied, probably because it peeled and scratched so easily. What we sell at Clarity Eye Care are all Crizal products. These products have worked out great in my opinion and I really do recommend them for everybody.

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