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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Children's Vision

A Free 3 year old Vision Assessment

Some parents wonder when it is necessary to start getting their children's vision tested. Our recommendation is, unless if you notice something or are referred by their pediatrician you should start when they are three years old. According to the Eye Care Council, warning signs might be rubbing their eyes, avoiding close-up work, or squinting. You can check out the link to the Eye Care Council's web-site at the end of the page for more information. If your child is under three years old and you do notice some of these warning signs we recommend you look for an optometrist or opthalmologist who specializes in children's vision. If your child is three years old or older - read on!

If your child is 3-years-old, what do you do?

You can bring them to our office for a See to Learn vision assessment. The vision assessment is free of charge. In this assessment the doctor will see if your child might have a vision problem. If the doctor does decide that your child does need a full vision exam we would be more than happy to schedule that for you and your child and assit you in picking out appropriate glasses if necessary. Generally this exam requires dilation to determine an acurate prescription. We generally do not do the puff of air test of 3-year-olds, but we do show them what it does so they are more comfortable with it in the future. The full exam and the glasses could be billed to your insurance or you could use the Essilor Jr lenses which give children the strong lenses they need at an affordable price.

If your child is older than 3-years-old, what do you do?

You can still bring them in for a full exam. We will do all the same tests we would with an adult, so this would include the puff of air test. We could bill your exam to any applicable insurance or give you a 20% discount if you do not have insurance. Also, any child 18 or under is eligible for the more budget friendly Essilor Jr lenses if you do not have vision insurance.

What do we do after their first exam?

We recommend that every person, especially children come in yearly for an eye exam. Often time a prescription will change as a child grows, therfore theirs will change more frequently than most adults.

What about glasses?

Once they have their glasses you may stop in any time for an adjustment and children usually need them frequently because they are constantly moving and touching their faces. We put all children into polycarbonate lenses. These lenses are lightweight, thinner, and most importantly they are the most impact resistant, giving the best protection to your little one's eyes. These polycarbonate lenses have a one time replacement in a year if they are scratched or broken.

What does my child need on their glasses?

Scratch Protection

We always recommend scratch protection for children. From our experience children scratch their lenses very frequently and the scratches prevent them from having crisp, clear vision. This scratch protection goes on both the front and back side of the lenses for double protection and it warranties the lenses to be replaced as many times as necessary in a year.

AntiReflective

We also recommend antireflective coating which reduces glare when your child is reading from a white page, or off of a white board. It makes vision crisp, clear, and reduces eye strain which makes vision more comfortable. The antireflective coating includes scratch protection and it warranties the lenses for two years for unlimited replacement. It is also discounted in a lens package with Essilor Jr lenses.

Transitions

Finally, we always recommend sun protection for everybody. Usually a pair of glasses and sunglasses are a lot for a child to keep track of so we recommend Transitions lenses which are also disounted in the Essilor Jr lens package. These lenses turn dark and provide 100% UV protection when exposed to sunlight and they lighten when not exposed to sunlight.

***Bring your child in anytime before the end of August to color an Essilor Jr coloring sheet and enter to win an Essilor Jr back pack with a some games and school supplies. No purchase necessary to enter.***

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http://www.seetolearn.com/

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