Lenses
THIN & Lite (a.k.a. high index plastic or featherweights)
Vision Care providers say 80% of their patients want more cosmetically appealing eyeglass lenses. Thin&Lite Lenses are made from high-index plastic resulting in a thinner, flatter more comfortable lens.
With a higher refractive index Thin&Lite lenses produce the same vision correction as a regular plastic lens but in a thinner and flatter lens—for improved appearance and better vision.
Lens thickness comparison with a +2 correction
For a variety of consumers, including those with higher prescriptions and for popular rimless frame styles, Thin&Lite lenses offer improved performance and cosmetics thanks to the latest lens technology.
Thin&Lite lenses are available in Varilux progressive designs. A high quality anti-glare treatment, like Crizal Alizé, is recommended for Thin&Lite to make the most of your lens performance.
SAFETY LENSES (a.k.a. polycarbonate or airwear)
Airwear provides a unique combination of benefits that make it the ideal choice for today’s active lifestyles, and provides the wearer with superior comfort and performance. Airwear lenses are 43% lighter and 10 times more impact resistant than standard plastic lenses, so they have the lightness and strength you need in a lens while also providing the enhanced comfort and cosmetic appearance you desire.
Airwear lenses are made from polycarbonate plastic—which is found everywhere from your car to your home to essential accessories such as eyeglasses that make our lives better. From DVDs and Apple iMacs to many aesthetic applications including eyeglass lenses, consumers want the technology of tomorrow, with the style of tomorrow, and polycarbonate does just that.
Airwear lenses are not only lighter in weight and thinner than traditional plastic lenses; they also offer scratch-resistance, ultraviolet protection and are very impact-resistant. In fact, weight/lightness was rated as the most important quality of a lens in a recent consumer survey†.
†Source: Jobson Optical Research Vision Watch September 2005.
BIFOCAL LENSES
Lined Bi-focals provide two prescription powers: a distance power and a near power. The distance power helps you see things at a distance, while the near power corrects your vision for activities such as reading, knitting, or other close-up work.
Lined bi-focal lenses are available in a variety of options, including thin and light lenses, impact resistant lenses and transition lenses (lenses that change from light to dark).
TRIFOCAL LENSES
Lined Tri-focals provide three prescription powers: a distance power, a mid-range power, and a near power. The distance power helps you see things at a distance, the mid-range power helps you see things at intermediate distances, and the near power corrects your vision close up.
Tri-focal lenses are available in a variety of options, including thin and light lenses, impact resistant lenses and transition lenses (lenses that change from light to dark).
PROGRESSIVE LENSES (a.k.a. no-line bifocals or trifocals)
Since 1959, with the invention of the world’s first progressives, Varilux has innovated lens science to advance and set new standards of performance for vision and vision care for presbyopic patients. A combination of two good things, technology and innovation, Varilux progressive lenses provide clear vision at all distances without the age-old and unsightly bifocal lines. And with more than 300 million lenses sold worldwide, Varilux is the progressive lens brand that eye care professionals trust and recommend most.
Varilux lenses are specifically designed for people over 40 who experience presbyopia – a condition in which near vision (needed when reading, sewing or working at the computer) becomes increasingly blurred with age.
Varilux enables you to see near, far and everything in-between and look fabulous at the same time.
Varilux Comfort and NEW Varilux Comfort 360º
Easy fitting, easy adaptation
Since its release in 1993, Varilux Comfort has been the gold standard for progressive lens performance. Varilux Comfort delivers a versatile design that provides exceptionally easy adaptation for wearers and unsurpassed ease of fitting for dispensers, making it a trusted tool for eye care professionals everywhere.
New Varilux Comfort 360º provides the trusted Varilux Comfort design with wider fields of vision.
When a distance prescription is added to any lens, peripheral distortion increases and vision fields decrease. Through the patented 360º Digital Surfacing process, VARILUX Comfort 360° lenses eliminate to provide wider fields of vision and less peripheral distortion. How is this accomplished? When each new VARILUX Comfort 360° lens is created, a unique back-side is designed to the patient’s individual prescription. This design is then applied using patented 360° Digital Surfacing technology to ensure that the interaction between the front-side VARILUX Comfort lens design and the back-side prescription provides a new level of superior vision.
New Varilux Comfort 360º lenses deliver:
- The gold standard patient adaptation of Varilux Comfort lenses
- The unsurpassed ease-of-fitting set of Varilux Comfort lenses
- Wider fields of vision through reduced peripheral distortion
DEFINITY™ progressive lenses are the only PAL that utilizes DUAL ADD® Technology, a patented, dual-surface, offset design which provides several distinct optical advantages: a wider intermediate zone, the least amount of peripheral distortion of any PAL and a unique zone of correction called GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE™.
GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE features a reduction in power which minimizes distortion and flattens the field of vision, giving wearers greater clarity when looking down.
Another significant benefit of DUAL ADD and GROUND VIEW ADVANTAGE is that these advantages become more pronounced as add power increases. As a result, DEFINITY remains the right solution for presbyopes as they age.
DEFINITY is the perfect lens for the active lifestyles of today’s presbyopes. With the superior intermediate vision, DEFINITY makes computer use, driving or any other everyday activity more comfortable. With clearer vision when looking down, DEFINITY makes going up and down stairs, playing golf or tennis, or navigating uneven surfaces easier.
