The Optical Department utilizes an in-house laboratory to custom make eyeglass lenses. This allows us to provided you with a specialized fit for your needs.
Progressive Additional Lenses (PALs) have no lines in them but they do have a clear corridor that is molded or generated in the center of the lens. This corridor runs from about the center of your pupil as you look through the lens to about the bottom of the lens. This corridor changes shape and by doing so changes the power in the lens.
Occupational lenses are designed to perform a particular job or hobby and are not meant for everyday use. One occupational bifocal is a Double-D, which has a bifocal at the bottom and an upside down bifocal at the top. The two bifocals can have different powers which allow you to focus at different distances. These work good for people who have to work below and above their head.
Multifocals let you focus through different prescriptions at different distances through the same lens.
Bifocals allow the top for clear distance vision and the bottom for clear near vision.
When you reach the point of not being able to read up close with out stretching your arms to the limit, you may need single vision reading glasses. Reading glasses come in two main styles. Full frames in which the entire lens is made in the reading prescription and half eyes frames which allow you to read up close and look over the frame to see across the room.
