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The most precious eye glasses frame

January 5th, 2010 by Richard Schneider No comments »

Due to the aesthetic features of eye glasses frame, designers have been using different kinds of precious and unusual materials to make the high-end eye glasses frame.

Natural materials are designers’ first choice to hand-make such high quality eye glasses frame. Frames made out of wood, bone and ox horn are warm and naturally-touching to human body. These materials are strong but difficult to adjust. As the making cost is too high, the price of this type of eye glasses frame is much more expensive than normal one. But some people still like it.

Another precious material for manufacturing top eye glasses frame is the shell of hawksbill, a kind of sea turtle. The hawksbill shell is lightweight, durable, unique, bright in color and very appealing. As this is also the natural material, there is no skin irritation for wearers.

Like making other jewelries, eye glasses frame designers also look at the silver and gold to make eye glasses frame. Silver is mainly used as trimmings in the whole eye glasses frame, as solid silver seemingly does not make any good and satisfied eye glasses frame. Same as silver, gold is often used as trimming too, and mostly gold is used on the plating of eye glasses frame. Some designers even make eye glasses frame out of solid gold in 14K and 18K. But as the solid gold eye glasses frame is too expensive and too heavyweight, it does not produce any comfort for the users.

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Eye treatment methods for common eye diseases

January 4th, 2010 by Connie Robertson No comments »

Eyes are easy to be affected by bacteria, fungi or viruses, or to be injured, with exposure to a foreign body or chemical. There are hundreds types of diseases related with human eyes.

Eye treatment is the method that an ophthalmologist adopt to cure eye diseases in his office or an emergency department. Eye treatment can also be carried out at home by your own, for example, flushing the eye with great amounts of lukewarm tap water or commercially prepared eyewash solution under eye infection by chemical or eye injury. However, when a foreign body gets into the eye, you should not rob your eyes, and eye irrigation is usually not recommended. Eye treatment methods are usually different according to different types of eye disease. Following listed some medical eye treatment methods for common eye diseases.

Viral conjunctivitis and bacterial conjunctivitis are usually treated with antibiotic eye drops, when allergic conjunctivitis is normally treated with antihistamines.

The eye treatment for corneal abrasions and ulcerations includes antibiotic eye drops, eye ointment, and pain medication.

Chemical eye burns should be evaluated by an ophthalmologist besides an eye treatment of eye irrigation.

Scrubbing the eyelid edges with mild shampoo is the eye treatment method for curing blepharitis by removing excess oil.

The eye treatment method for styes or chalozions is usually conservative, by placing warm compresses for 15 to 20 minutes with cloth with hot water several times a day.

The eye treatment method for glaucoma is more complex. Treatment for severe glaucoma usually begins with several types of eye drops, such as a topical beta-blocker, a topical steroid drop, and a pupillary constricting eyedrop. Emergency surgery may be carried out for acute glaucoma.

Traumatic events to the eye should be managed by ophthalmologists and need immediate evaluation in the emergency department.

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How to choose an eye doctor?

January 3rd, 2010 by Angela Garrana No comments »

Millions of people have vision problems, some of which have no telltale signs and may cause permanent vision loss if not treated in time. So it’s very important to have a good eye doctor for your eye care. Eye doctors can not only detect your visual acuity but also detect many things that you can’t, such as fluid pressure, blood pressure, and even diabetes, high cholesterol and brain tumors.

There are two kinds of eye doctors: optometrists and ophthalmologists. So the first step in choosing an eye doctor is to make sure which kind of eye doctor is suitable for you. An optometrist is an eye doctor who has earned the doctor of optometry degree after completing a four-year college degree program in the sciences and a four-year post-graduate training in optometry school. This kind of eye doctors can examine your eye’s vision and health problems, and prescribe eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct refractive errors. In recent years, some optometrists are also licensed to provide low vision care and vision therapy. An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor specializes in eye and vision care. This kind of eye doctors get more education than optometrists, besides eight years in medical school, they also have a year of internship and a minimum of three years residency in hospital. Although ophthalmologists can do all the work that optometrists do, they spend more time in diagnosing and treating disease, prescribing medications and performing eye surgery. Besides these two kinds of eye doctors, there is an optician. An optician is not an eye doctor, but he/she can use the prescriptions written by an eye doctor to fit eyeglasses or contact lenses for you.

Finally, if your eyes are healthy, you may find a friendly, competent and caring eye doctor, either an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, who is recommended by your friends or family members.

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How to keep your designer reading glasses clean?

January 3rd, 2010 by Randa Nahl No comments »

When people get 40+ you probably will encounter vision errors in doing near work. In this case you will mostly need to wear reading glasses. Middle-aged people can more likely afford to buy higher quality, better material and more fashionable designer reading glasses to hide bad features of the face and make look younger and more appealing. Designer reading glasses are pretty valuable stuff, so routine clean work is needed to take better care of.

Designer reading glasses, one of the designer prescription glasses, normally are made out of high-end lenses with special coating and designer frames with special finish. Consult your optician for the best possible advice for the cleaning of your designer reading glasses.

Some basic tips tell us to always use the soft micro fiber cloth to clean the lenses. Don’t use paper towel or shirt corner or any rag to wipe the dust or dirt off the lenses which mostly will scratch the lenses. Wearing a pair of designer reading glasses with lots of specks on the lenses is impolite in front of friends and peers.

Besides the lenses, oil and dirt will also easily build up in the nose pads, temples and other parts of the designer reading glasses. Remember to use wild detergent and warm water to clean. For the nose pads, use unused soft toothbrush to remove the dirt. The most difficult parts are the earpieces, especially for the people of excessive perspiration, the earpieces need weekly clean-up otherwise the two temple tips of your beloved designer reading glasses can never be restored to original shade.

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Lenses for prescription sunglasses

January 1st, 2010 by Jay Furlong No comments »

There is a wide choice for the lenses of prescription sunglasses. Most of the lenses materials are available for prescription sunglasses, such as glass, CR-39 resin and polycarbonate. The tints of lenses most frequently used are brown, yellow, blue, purple and green.

Yellow and brown prescription sunglasses are good for sports like golf and shooting. For fishing and hunting, wearers need sunglasses with polarized lenses to reduce the glare from water and mountain.

Another choice for purchasing a pair of prescription sunglasses is to choose the photochromic lenses. Photochromic is a patent technology owned by Transition. Photochromic lenses can automatically darken when wearer is exposed to UV rays from strong sunlight, and change back to clearer look when wearer is indoors. Photochromic prescription sunglasses are highly welcome, but still have some defects. They don’t darken enough inside the car while driving because windshield has blocked most of the UV rays. Another shortcoming is that the tint of photochromic prescription sunglasses is not ample in extra bright sunlight.

Optical experts suggest a combination of normal prescription eyeglasses and a frame of clip-on, or a pair of photochromic prescription sunglasses and a clip-on. This will suit a wearer under most of the lighting conditions.

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The procedure of PRK

December 31st, 2009 by Connie Robertson No comments »

PRK is short for photorefractive keratectomy. PRK is a laser vision surgery procedures intended to correct eye vision by changing the shape of the anterior central cornea using an excimer laser.

Before the vision surgery, the patient’s corneas are examined with a pachymeter to determine their thickness and other irregularities in the shape of the cornea, and with a topographer to measure and draw their surface contour map. This process before PRK also measures astigmatism for the vision surgery. Using this information, the eye doctor calculates the amount and the locations of corneal tissue to be removed during the vision surgery.

In the process of PRK, the first step is to create a flap of the outer layer of the cornea in the middle section of the cornea, with a hinge left at one end. Then a small amount of tissue from the corneal stroma just under the corneal epithelium is ablated by an excimer laser. During this step of PRK, a computer system is used to help redirecting laser pulses for precise placement 60 to 4,000 times per second. The last step of the vision surgery is to fold back the flap made in the first step is carefully over the treatment area after the laser has reshaped the cornea.

As with other forms of refractive vision surgery, Lasik, Epi-Lasik, Lasek and so forth, the complications of dry eyes is the most commonly occurred after PRK and can be permanent. Some patients after having PRK surgery have suffered glare, halos, and starburst aberrations, which may be the result of postoperative corneal haze that may develop during the healing process. And about 1~3% of the cases, loss of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) may occur. Compare with PRK, other laser vision surgery procedures are more stable, such as LASIK and LASEK.

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The brief introduction of EyeMasters

December 30th, 2009 by Angela Garrana No comments »

EyeMasters is one of the eleven store names under the Eye Care Centers of America, Inc., which is one of the largest optical chains in the USA. Eye Masters currently has about 160 optical stores scattered in some 36 states.

EyeMaster used to be an independent name before it was acquired by Eye Care Centers in 1986. Through the expansion by opening new stores after being merged in the name of EyeMasters, EyeMasters gradually reaches today’s scale. Presently EyeMasters has the biggest store number comparing with other 10 store names of the same company.

Eye Masters provides an array of different brands of frames, lenses, contacts and sunglasses. The brands portfolio of Eye Masters ranges from premium high-end designer brands to discounted generic but still good quality eyewear, thus enabling EyeMasters to meet the demands of people from different income levels. In the sunglasses section, Eye Masters has two exclusive collections which are Aztec and ProV respectively.

The basic setting for most of the Eye Masters stores is that the independent eye doctor and grinding and fitting facilities are under the same roof. This gives Eye Masters stores a chance to service its customers with one-stop and one-hour prescription.

Eye Master strongly believes that quality, affordability and service are crucial to the stores’ steady growth. Eye Master has a stringent quality control rules to ensure 100% accuracy of the lenses fitting for customer satisfaction. In case for any reason customer is unsatisfied, EyeMasters has a 30-day money back guarantee to give buyer a full confidence in any purchase in the EyeMaster stores.

EyeMasters treat the comments even complaints from the customers as treasure. This helps keep the service of Eye Master always at the sharp position. The final goal of EyeMaster is to “give you the highest visual acuity while providing an aesthetic appeal.”

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The development trends of future glasses stores

December 29th, 2009 by Scott Mozayeni No comments »

Operating a glasses store used to a huge-profit business, it is said that anyone who is licensed to have a glasses store would make lots of money at the old times. But with the development of the eyeglasses market both in real world and on internet, it becomes much difficult to operate a glasses store well. So if you plan to operate a glasses store in the future times, you are supposed to be aware about the development trends of future glasses stores.

The network glasses stores seriously threaten the local glasses stores for the convenient and low price. More and more young people choose to buy the glasses through internet. They can look through a large collection of eyeglasses without having to go outside, and the eyeglasses can be delivered directly to your door. On the condition that you possess the network and brick and mortar glasses stores at the same time, you can seize the wealth of eyeglasses. However, your two glasses stores should make different market orientations, so as to offer different services. For example, online glasses stores are more popular among the adolescences, traditional glasses stores are welcomed by the middle aged and old people.

People in today’s world are more captious on eyewear than ever before. They pursue eyeglasses more than just the vision aids. The eyeglasses are required to be durable and modish. So your glasses store should follow up the fashion trend of eyeglasses, you have a collection of both retro and edgy glasses. In fact, in order to make your glasses store be remembered by others, you are suggested to offer the newest collections of eyeglasses, including the reading glasses, contact lenses, children’s glasses and so on. To be professional is very important so that you can build up reputation day by day.

The two key factors to the success of the glasses stores have already been discussed above. Modern glasses stores are facing more challenges that ever before. Being managed by a large eyeglasses manufacturer and being divided into specialty glasses stores are two predictable trends of the developments of glasses stores. You are supposed to follow the trends and finally form your own shape of your glasses store.

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How to choose proper prescription frames?

December 28th, 2009 by Charles Garrana No comments »

Choosing prescription frames is an important step in selecting glasses. Market offers a huge selection of frames for glasses to pick from, including Gucci, Versace etc. What kind of prescription frames should be chosen?

In the first instance, people should have a clear idea that the most suitable shapes of frames for glasses is opposite of people’s face shapes. For example angular-shaped faces look better with rounder prescription frames. People with full cheeks and a round chin, better to choose slimming prescription frames. So when people choose frames for glasses in retail shops, they can try lots of prescription frames to find out the best and suit their face shapes. Nowadays, young people would like to buy frames for glasses online. Plenty of sites offer a service that people can upload their own photos and they can see how their looks in certain prescription frames on computer screens.

Another crucial factor influencing people’s choices of frames for glasses is that the prescription frames color should flatter the skin. Also, prescription frames colors can complement different skin tone. For instance, dark complexions people better with olive frames for glasses, Mediterranean, golden or Asian skin and rich black hair often look nice with silver, gold or clear frames for glasses, and black skin may looks better with metallic color prescription frames. Be careful with colors – they can contribute to overall styles of people with prescription frames.

The two points mentioned above can help people select frames for glasses that are the ones most likely to fit their appearances. Maybe sometimes some people wish to break the above “rules” for a more spectacular look. This will be depended upon people’s own wishes, if they like the style, then go for it.

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Ways to maintain the health of eye lens

December 28th, 2009 by Charles Garrana No comments »

As for modern people, eye lens is a word that required paying special attention to. For in most cases, one often excessively uses their eyes, and eye lens is prone to be tired. What’s worse is the environment around are not suitable for keeping healthy eyes. The health of eye lens is threatened by various sorts of radiations.

Thereby, many people have got serious eye diseases for the sake of abnormal eye lens. For some people, the best way for them to solve some eye problems is to find some lenses for eyes, hoping their eyesight will be improved by adjusting eye lens. However, just to wear some lenses for eyes is not sufficient, people should know other ways to nourish eye lens.

Though eye lens is very important and works a long time each day, they are not easily distorted. A little energy and elements can support the daily work of eye lens.

One way is to intake some elements essential for eyes. Only with sufficient microelements can eye lens work smoothly. Some Ophthalmic theorists hold that the best way to maintain the health of eye lens is to relax eyes regularly. It is true that if eyes can receive regular relaxing care, eye lens can recover to original state. Some people do gain some ideal results in reviving their visions by relaxing their eyes while wearing lenses for eyes.

While other ophthalmic theorists persist that wearing lenses for eyes can help people improve their eyesight, or at least can relieve their vision error. Many people find that relaxing their eyes is not practicable, for they are very busy. Thereupon, the very thing for people with problems on eye lens is to prescribe some lenses for eyes.

At any rate, the way theories are basically correct. Whether to relax eyes or to get lenses for eyes, both theories are beneficial for people with errors on eye lens.

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