Spectacle lenses nowadays have hundreds of variations, and it is important for you to have expert guidance on the best lens for you and your vision. Some of lens choices available to meet your visual needs include:

Medium and high index plastics help to make spectacle lenses thinner and lighter for higher prescriptions of short or longsightedness, so the end result looks good and feels good. There are differing levels of high index, and experienced guidance can help you to select the best level at the right price for you.

Transitions lenses are clear inside and turn darker very quickly when you walk outside, providing convenient sunglass protection and comfort in our bright sun. They come in different colours and different densities of tint, and it is also important to understand the benefits and minor limitations of Transitions lenses, and if they are suitable for your needs.

Anti-reflective coating of lenses is an invisible film to eliminate reflections off spectacle lenses which interfere with people making eye contact with you, and give you brighter vision in an office with reflections from windows and computers and overhead lighting. These days antireflective coating should be routine for your glasses to look and work as well as possible.

Progressive lenses provide a range of focuses for distance, intermediate and reading tasks all in one pair of prescription glasses. There are many designs, and the best one to you can depend on the size of the frame, your prescription, your visual demands at home or in the office, and the price range you prefer. Cheaper progressive lenses tend to be much harder to become used to, often do not provide as big a reading area, and frequently have more distortion and blur when you look at the sides.

Occupational lenses provide different focuses usually designed for a computer screen and reading, and these should be specially selected only after a careful discussion of your visual tasks, so you obtain the best vision possible for the things you do.

Interview and Access Lenses These spectacle lenses are designed and made in Australia to provide two focusing powers in one lens. They act like a bifocal without a line, so looking straight ahead through the top half of the lens provides clear general vision, such as for the board in school. Looking down through the bottom half of the lenses provides extra help for focusing to read and write.

Interview and Access lenses are commonly used for children who have focusing problems for reading, or who have difficulty changing focus from their book to the board. By keeping his or her head relatively normal in position, and looking up at the board or down at the book with eye movements, the child can have clear and comfortable vision for both tasks. Children become used to the lenses very easily, since it is a simple matter of learning to move eyes up and down rather than using head movements.

A common reason for using these lenses is for children who have problems of focusing for reading, where more focus assistance is required for near than for the board. The lenses are also used for children who are developing short sightedness, where they need a lens to see clearly on the board, but looking through this power for reading would lead to strain, blurred vision, or excessive focusing effort which may contribute to increased short sightedness over time.

Interview and Access lenses are also used for adults who require clear focus for two different areas, such as looking at a computer screen as well as reading material.

These lenses are easier to become used to wearing than normal multifocal or graduated focus lenses, so it is very uncommon for children or adults to have difficulties learning to use the new lenses. However, combining two focus powers without a line does produce slight blur on the edges of vision, so they are not recommended for use when driving.

In our experience these lenses provide a very effective treatment for certain vision and focusing problems in children and adults when single vision or multifocal lenses are not ideal.