Frames and Lenses
We are pleased to offer a wide range of fashion eyewear for our patients. As examples, these ranges include the famous designer brand names shown here:
- Face a Face
- Maui Jim
- Prodesign
- OGA
- Koali
- ck Calvin Klein
- Lindberg
- Lafont
- COACH
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Flexon
- Nike
- Nautica
- Lafont
- Anna Sui
- Mikli
- Starck
- David Lawrence
- Safilo
- Marchon
All recommended brands have a 1 year warranty, and even budget ranges are guaranteed for 3 months.
If spectacles are prescribed, our professional staff will assist you in selecting eyewear that will be most appropriate to your face and lens prescription, This process will include factors such as style and colour, as well as sizing for proper fit and comfort.
Exciting Range of Fashion Sunglasses
As well as fashionable spectacle frames, we also have a full range of sunglasses. These are available off-the-shelf with quality UV-Blocking sunglass lenses, or they can be fitted with sunglass lenses in your own personal prescription.
A wide range of fashion brands is in stock and again feature our warranty on quality.
New Technology in Spectacle Lenses
There are many exciting advances in the designs and materials for spectacle lenses:
- High Index Materials for thinner & lighter lenses
- Aspheric Lens Design for flatter, less bulgy, lenses
- UV Blockers to prevent the transmission of harmful Ultra Violet radiation
- Photo-sensitive Materials that change colour in response to sunlight
- Progressive Lenses for people who would otherwise need bifocals
- Occupational Lenses with special designs for different tasks, like VDU operators
Together these provide for thinner and lighter lenses, offering improved optics and a sight correction which is more natural.
Progressive Spectacle Lenses
Everyone over their early 40′s is affected to some degree by a natural loss of focussing ability called presbyopia. This is usually corrected with either reading spectacles, bifocals, trifocals or progressive lenses.
Progressive lenses are designed so that the distance prescription is used during straight-ahead gaze and the reading prescription during down-gaze. This then provides a more natural vision without any lines in the lens (which can get in the way on stairs for example).
- Progressive lenses provide excellent results for most patients.
- They provide a focus for distance, near and all distances between.
- Cosmetically they look “younger” with no lines.
- The vision correction is more natural for the wearer.
Progressive lenses are also known as multifocals or graduated lenses.
Lenses That Respond to Sunlight
Spectacle lenses with a tint that responds to sunlight (photochromics) have been available since the early 1970′s. However, until recently these lenses were always made from glass.
Now new lightweight colour change lenses are available made from resin (or plastic). There are several different brands but the most widely known are called Transitions or Colourmatic.
- Photochromic plastic lenses are light weight
- They respond to suit varying levels of glare
- They also offer UV-protection as a feature of the material
- The lens surfaces are treated to resist scratching
- Newer versions also include high index materials for further reductions in weight & thickness.