Using a pair of eye reading glasses

February 6th, 2010 by Andrew Rabinowitz No comments »

Nowadays, problems of vision have become very common among individuals across the world. The majority of people have to go for the eye reading glasses. Eye reading glasses benefit plenty of people who become older, or have vision problems.

Eye reading glasses looks like normal glasses and, actually, they give people a wonderful distance vision and good reading vision, especially to the people who need prolonged reading. Eye reading glasses can let people focus on fine detail at close distance, for eye reading glasses simply bend light in a manner so light can hit the back of eye properly. Eye reading glasses really make people can have a comfortable read.

With age, the fibers of the eye lens get denser and less flexible. So when people at age 45, they always need a pair of eye reading glasses. If they do not have the idea that they need eye reading glasses, they will find that they pull their newspapers or dinner menus farther and farther when they read them. So eye reading glasses become a fact of life for most people over the age of 45.

In current days, many people work and study on computers, most of which need eye reading glasses too. Computer users may focus on computer screens for a very long time a day, in some degrees, eye reading glasses can be used as computer glasses. Eye reading glasses can help people have a nice vision; what is more, eye reading glasses can also help people maintain a proper posture to protect eyes from increasing damaged.

So people will read much easier with a great pair of eye reading glasses, and most important, eye reading glasses can relax eyes and make them healthy. Of course, people should make sure the eye reading glasses make them look and feel fabulous.

Good contact lens care improves your eye health

February 6th, 2010 by Andrew Rabinowitz No comments »

Good contact lens care is an important step to wear contacts and keep our eyes healthy and safe. Talking about contact lens care, the contact lens solution may just come up in your mind. But how to use the right contact lens cleaner appropriately also has great importance to contact lens care. The following will state how to make contact lens care and use contact lens cleaner properly.

To have a good contact lens care, one of the most important thing we must remember is to wash and dry our hands before handling any contact lens. Use the contact lens care products as prescribed by eye care professionals, and we must bear in mind to consult with the eye doctor when we change for another contact lens care products, like the contact lens cleaner. To be sure to clean the contact lenses when we remove them, clean the lens case after each use and discard contact lens cleaner solution after each time of use. In addition, when we feel uncomfortable which caused by the lens or contact lens care products, go to eye doctor right away to find out the problem.

As an important contact lens care product, contact lens cleaner also plays an important role in safeguarding our eye health. When we use contact lens cleaner, we have to distinguish different types of contact lens solution for different kinds of contact lens, such as soft and RGB contact lens. Use the very contact lens cleaner and eye drops that eye doctors suggest. And never mix different contact lens cleaner or drops. In addition, don’t use the contact lens cleaner that has expired.

Brief introduction of Vision Direct

February 5th, 2010 by Yaron Cheng No comments »

Vision Direct, a division of DrugStore.com, was merged into DrugStore in Dec, 2003. Now Vision Direct is DrugStore’s vision division selling branded contact lenses through its online store VisionDirect.com to North America, Europe and other countries around the world. Presently VisionDirect.com is one of the 3 biggest online retailers of contact lenses in USA, the other two are 1800contacts.com and CoastalContacts.com from Canada respectively.

Vision Direct sells on the web the major names of contact lenses such Johnson & Johnson, Bausch & Lomb, CIBA vision, OSI/American Hydron and many other lenses manufacturers. Vision Direct strictly follows the rigorous prescription verification system since its inception, and therefore has gained strong reputation as the leading online retailer of contact lenses.

The purchasing of lenses on VisionDirect.com is pretty easy by following three simple steps: find your contacts, select your power and color (if available) for both eyes, and fill in the doctor’s name and information. Above information is important for securing best possible service from Vision Direct. It is required that the online retailers need to verify your prescription accuracy and validity with your doctor before agreeing to sell the contact lenses to you.

At Vision Direct, customers can easily find the great discounts and bargains for the name brands lenses. Though some experts and government agencies strongly oppose the purchase of lenses via internet stores, Vision Direct is still gaining popularity among the consumers as what Vision Direct sells is exactly the same as local eye care practitioners as long as you fill in the correct brand name and prescription powers.

Vision Direct offers 24/7 customer services through its call center which are able and willing to answer all the questions from the customers concerning your order information and status, and even knowledge of eyes and eye care.

Flexible flexon frames

February 4th, 2010 by Brian Wallace No comments »

In the eyeglasses market, flexon frames are preferred by a large number of people because of their special properties. Flexon frames are made of flexon, a shape memory alloy of titanium. Flexon glasses are light and extremely flexible. Flexon frames can be bent to a significant degree. Their magic is that they can resume the original shape once released. According to statistics, flexon frames are 10 times more flexible than conventional metal frames. Another feature of flexon frames is lightness. Flexon glasses are 25% lighter than conventional glasses. The combination of these features makes flexon glasses comfortable, flexible and durable.

Marchon Eyewear bought flexon from the Beta Group in 1995 and used it to manufacture flexon frames and flexon glasses for years. Now flexon glasses are made in China, Japan and Italy. In addition to flexon glasses, Marchon Eyewear also distributes other brand glasses such as Calvin Klein, DKNY and Nautica. Currently, flexon frames are found in other famous brands. Marchon Eyewear adds flexon frames to its Nike Eyewear adult line, which targets the active pre-teen market. Maui Jim combines its patented PolarizedPlus lens technology with flexon frames.

Flexon glasses are suitable for men, women, teens, and children, especially for those who like peace of mind. Flexon frames are not limited to eyeglasses. They also can be found in flexon sunglasses and flexon clip-on designs. You can check local stores for flexon glasses or order online. Frames Direct has flexon frames in shapes and sizes for both women and men.

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Brief introduction of 1800Contacts

February 4th, 2010 by Brian Wallace No comments »

1800Contacts is the world’s largest contact lenses store through its easy-to-remember telephone number (1800Contacts) and its web facility at 1800Contacts.com. 1800Contacts has been running its business since 1998, and has gained big popularity among the contact lenses wearers in North America and around the world.

1800Contacts fully understands the two major frustrations the contact lenses wearers are confronting, one is the high price of the lenses, the other is the inconveniences of buying and picking up from the eye care professional’s office. Now with 1800Contacts, you can simply call 1800Contacts or click on its website, your contact lenses will be shipped to your door, offering a hassle-free service to the patients. 1800Contacts owns the world’s largest inventory of lenses up to 10 million contacts, which encompass almost all the brands in the world. This large stock ensures 1800Contacts can offer the widest possible options to its customers and ensures the fastest delivery. 1800Contacts, through its web and call center, is delivering exactly the same lenses as doctors provide, and meanwhile has greatly reduced the operating cost, making it possible to provide the most affordable contact lenses to its users.

Statistics show that patients will mostly overuse their contact lenses which will cause seriously their eye health. Now 1800Contacts has permanently solved these hassles to enable the wearers to easily follow the wearing schedule, thus securing healthier and more comfortable vision correction.

How can women match your vogue eyeglasses with your other accessories?

February 3rd, 2010 by Edward Turner No comments »

Vogue eyeglasses are becoming the indispensable and integral part of human expression. Harmonious combination of trendy eyeglasses and other fashion elements will enhance your look and make you prominent in the social activities. Vogue eyeglasses, together with your clothes, belt, purse, earrings and necklace or even ring work concertedly to show the best part of your self.

The most important aspect is the color-matching. See what color your vogue eyeglasses are, and make sure the color of your funky eyeglasses coordinate with your other ornaments. Mostly they should be in the similar or close color family. Your stylish eyeglasses should also match the majority of your clothes in style and pattern, even in colors. Some young people live a diversified life in and off work, these people need more than two pieces of vogue eyeglasses to meet the different occasions.

Earrings are less conspicuous comparing with your vogue eyeglasses when people see you. The function of earrings is to accentuate your vogue eyeglasses both in color and shape. Necklaces are more prominent than earrings in matching with your vogue eyeglasses. Finer necklaces, instead of clunky ones, will harmonize with your vogue eyeglasses.

If you really have difficulties in finding out what the best matches are, please consult your friends or even personal image experts for advices.

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How to understand your prescription eyeglasses?

February 3rd, 2010 by Edward Turner No comments »

A pair of prescription eyeglasses is one that is custom made by an optician based on the written prescription by an eye doctor or optometrist. Prescription eyeglasses mainly functions as a corrective instrument to make the wearer see clearer. Prescription eyeglasses cure the blurred vision caused by the myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia.

Prescription eyeglasses must be made in compliance with the written prescription from eye doctors. Most of the eyeglasses prescriptions in the world are not uniform in forms, but the major contents are the same. A wearable prescription eyeglasses needs some basic numbers to follow, here is an example of eyeglasses prescription:

O.D.    -4.00(SPH)    -0.5(CYL)    105(Axis)

O.S.    -3.50(SPH)    -1.00(CYL)    140(Axis)

ADD: O.D.    +2.00

O.S.     +2.00

O.D.: Latin abbreviation for “Right Eye”

O.S.: Latin abbreviation for “Left Eye”

SHP: Abbreviation for Spherical, means the degree of myopia, hyperopia or presbyopia.

CYL: CYL refers to “Cylinder”, means the degree of astigmatism.

Axis: Axis is a number from 0 to 180 meaning the orientation of astigmatism.

ADD: ADD means the additional refractive power. For single vision prescription eyeglasses, it represents a single vision lens prescription to improve the near vision; for bifocal prescription eyeglasses this means the degrees for the reading portion.

more info: How to read and enter prescription

The material of lens frame

February 2nd, 2010 by Ray Didia No comments »

Besides the style, the size, the gender distinction, the shape (full-frame, semi-frame or rimless) of lens frame, the material of lens frame is another critical consideration while eyeglasses wearers selecting their favorable pairs of lens frame eyeglasses. Lens frames can be made of generally three categories of materials: plastic, metal and unusual materials lens frame.

The commonly used types of plastic lens frames made of zly, nylon and cellulose acetate propionate (nylon-based). As different types of plastic do have their own features, the universal advantages of plastic lens frame lie in that it’s lightweight, relatively cheaper, and easy to manufacture. Drawbacks also exist so that certain group of people may reject plastic lens frames. Just to list some of them, fragile (easy to break), melting under extreme hot, sunlight-aging and color-fading etc..

Much more alternatives are available should you prefer metal lens frame, such as monel, titanium, beryllium, stainless steel, flexon (memory metal lens frame), aluminum and so on. Some of them are pure metals while others are mixtures of several metals, named alloys. Metal lens frame is mostly formal and classic thus suitable for businessmen and political leaders, most of which are strong, flexible, and corrosion-resistant and also provide colorful choices. However, for youngsters, metal lens frames may be dull, old-fashioned and lack of innovation.

Extraordinary materials for lens frames also occupy certain market proportion, because they meet the unusual tastes of style pursuers. Don’t be curious if you discover lens frames made of silver, gold, wood, bone, buffalo horn, leather and even stone, for sometimes they seize the most attractive places of eyeglasses retailers.

English scientist Roger Bacon and eye glasses

February 2nd, 2010 by Ray Didia No comments »

On the matter of the invention of eye glasses, we all know that no specific person could be credited. The history of eye glasses would not be integral if we forget a famous name—–Roger Bacon.

Roger Bacon, an English scientist in 13th century, found many people in the country could not read because of poor eye sight. Bacon thought of helping them. He tried and experimented to make eye glasses for a long time but ended with failure.

One day after rain, Bacon was strolling in the back yard and found the cobweb over the tree leaves was perched with many rain drops. When Bacon bended down to see these rain drops, he found the streak and tiny hair on the leaves could be seen clearer and be enlarged. He realized these rain drops were magnifying leaves. Soon Bacon went home and through a lot of efforts he finally found the prototype of “eye glasses”.

In 1268 Roger Bacon claimed that the lenses he found could be used on the “eye glasses” for correction purpose. Years later the usage of eye glasses was advised. Since then, many Italian and Spanish were added to the name list of contributors on the progress of eye glasses.

Today we saw many types of eye glasses which help improve our life in great deal. This reminds us of Roger Bacon for his efforts in inventing eye glasses

Progressive lenses with a range of powers

February 1st, 2010 by Richard Schneider No comments »

Progressive lenses are corrective lenses used for presbyopia and other eye problems. They are special because of their gradient of increasing lens power. Progressive lenses have several names, such as progressive addition lenses (PAL), progressive power lenses, graduated lenses, no-line bifocals, and varifocal lenses. All of these names can reflect some of the features of progressive lens.

People look down for close reading so that the gradient of progressive lenses starts at the top of the lens, at a minimum power and reaches a maximum addition power at the bottom of the lens. This structure of progressive lenses provides the most comfortable and convenient reading effect. The power gradient length of progressive lens is usually between 15 and 20mm. The power addition gap of progressive lens is between 1.0 to 2.5 which depends on the level of presbyopia of the patient.

Just as the name no-line bifocals suggests, progressive lenses have relationship with bifocal lenses, which have visible lines on the lenses. Progressive lens just eliminates the lines on bifocals and trifocals, so that others will not find that you need reading glasses. This is one advantage of progressive lenses.

Bifocal lenses and trifocal lenses provide two or three lens power on the lens, while progressive lenses provide a seamless progression of many lens power. Progressive lens performs well in more situations, including intermediate zone computer reading. In contrast to several lens power, progressive lenses just provide a more natural correction.

Progressive lens is not perfect. As the lenses combine a range of powers in a single surface, geometric distortions may be caused to visual field, which in turn bring visual discomfort.