For anyone who copes with a strong corrective vision prescription, high index lenses can be a blessing. Why Are High Index Lenses So Expensive? High index lenses require less physical material to form a prescription, which means they can be significantly lighter and thinner than an identical prescription cut of standard plastic or glass. High […]

It’s a scenario that plays out every day – a patient undergoes an eye exam, after which an optometrist begins the discussion of lens and frame options. Eventually the optometrist will offer high index lenses as an alternative to standard material lenses, and the patient will ask the inevitable question: Why Do I Need High […]

With such a “focus” – pardon the pun – on 1.74 high index lenses and the reduction in thickness that they provide, you may wonder: just how thick are 1.74 high index lenses? The answer depends upon your exact prescription. How Thick are 1.74 High Index Lenses The benefits of high index lenses in general […]

“High index lenses” are, simply put, eyeglass lenses that are made of high index material. High Index Lenses I know, that’s an answer that begs the follow-up question: what is high index material? High index material, available in either plastic or glass, is the result of a composite chemical process and creates a lens material […]

Often it seems there are enough eye-wear options to make your head spin. What are Polarized High Index Prescription Sunglasses? Thousands of frame styles, in plastic, metal, or a combination of both materials. Frame colors and patterns of every variety. Lenses made of a whole range of glass and plastic materials, low or high index. […]