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NEW DIGITAL CUSTOMIZED LENSES and BLUE LIGHT FILTERING LENSES 

The digital world and our time spent on digital devices is changing and so should your eye wear to accommodate increased screen time.   

Digital device use tires the eyes more quickly as well as exposes your eyes to harmful blue light.  

Digital device use on smartphones, tablets, and laptops require your eyes to work harder to focus resulting in tired eyes, dryness, glare sensitivity and discomfort at the end of the day.  We offer innovative DIGITAL lens technology that is designed to alleviate those symptoms.  

Blue light emitted from digital devices can also cause long term damage to your eyes especially with ever increasing screen times we are all guilty of.  Adding a BLUE-LIGHT filtering ANTI-GLARE coating to your lenses is a necessity to protect your eyes.   


Your glasses can look great on you no matter what your prescription is!

Nowadays, patients have many choices in terms of ophthalmic lens options to correct their vision. Lenses can be custom made to be aesthetically more appealing, with optimal clarity and minimal distortion resulting in the most comfortable vision available to date.

At Belmont Heights Optometry, we take care in selecting the best lens design to match your eyeglass frames. Our lenses come standard with a UV and hard coating.   We are also premier vendors for Zeiss and Seiko lenses that offer superior quality, clarity, and visual comfort.

NEW Customized DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Digital technology now allows lens to be customized according to your prescription. The shape of your frame, distance between your pupils, the way the frame sits on your face, and your prescription is taken into account to create a lens that delivers superior vision and clarity as well as a larger field of vision. 

Premium digital lenses offer the best vision and comfort available. 

Recommendations: Astigmatism, high refractive errors, and Progressive lenses. If you have tried progressive lenses in the past and have had some trouble getting used to them, likely due to peripheral distortion, digital progressives may be the answer.
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Tried Progressive lenses in the past and unable to adapt?  Digital Progressives may be the answer.

ASPHERIC LENS DESIGN

Aspheric lenses are designed to be flatter than regular lenses. This reduces distortion that is present on the periphery of the lens. With less distortion, you get better clarity through the lenses as well as preventing your eyes from looking unnaturally large or small.

Digitally customized lenses are double aspheric making them the most cosmetically appealing lenses available.

Recommendations: Mild to high refractive errors as well as a significant difference in refractive errors between the two eyes
Digitally customized lenses are double aspheric making them the most cosmetically appealing lenses available.

Lens Materials

Polycarbonate

HI-INDEX 

Polycarbonate is a safety lens that is impact resistant. It is lighter and thinner than plastic lenses and offer UV protection from the sun’s damaging rays.

Recommendations: We highly recommend polycarbonate lenses to all children as a safety precaution and well as patients with a mild to moderately high refractive errors. Certain eyeglass frames (rim-less or drill mounted) also require polycarbonate lenses due to the way the lenses must be cut to fit the frame.
Hi-Index lenses are even thinner than polycarbonate. They come in different degrees of thinness with the thinnest available being a hi-index 1.74 lens. Although they are not impact resistant they are still stronger than regular plastic lenses. 

Recommendations: Moderate to high refractive errors for the thinnest lenses available.

Anti-reflective coatings are the difference between seeing vs seeing in high definition.  

LENS COATING AND TREATMENTS

ANTI-REFLECTIVE COATINGS

Anti-glare or anti-reflective lens coatings speak for themselves. Besides greatly reducing the amount of glare hitting your eyes, they make your lenses cosmetically more appealing allowing your eyes to be visible behind your glasses.  Premium anti-reflective coating are best at resisting scratches and are easier to clean.  They can also filter harmful blue light emmitted from your digital devices.

WARNING: NOT ALL COATINGS ARE CREATED EQUAL! We only use premium quality anti-glare coatings.  

Recommendations: Highly recommended for everyone! Especially important if  you use your glasses to drive (especially at night), computer glasses to reduce glare from the computer screen, outdoor usage such as water sports, and for cosmetically more appealing lenses.



Can you tell which side has an anti-glare coating?

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POLARIZED LENSES

Polarized lenses are used in sunglasses to greatly reduce blinding reflections from glare. Ordinary tinted lenses only make your sunglasses darker but do not offer protection from glare due to oncoming headlights when you are driving or from shinny surfaces on a sunny day.

Recommendations: All sunglasses

Ever wonder how lenses are cut to fit your frame?

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4203 E 4th Street.  Long Beach, CA 90814
(562) 433-1700
belmontheightsoptometry@gmail.com
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