We take pride in educating our patients about their options in eyewear, not only with our terrific selection of frames, but with our outstanding knowledge of lens materials and designs.  When selecting your new lenses, it is important to take into consideration the material of the lens.  We will take into account your new prescription, past lens materials, anticipated use of the lenses and your individual needs, such as driving or computer use. 

We currently utilize the following lens materials...

Traditional plastic  A very durable lens material used for spectacle lenses.  It's properties allow several coatings and edge treatments to be added to the lens.

Polycarbonate  A shatter resistance material that we curently utilize in all safety and children's lens designs.  It is typically thinner and lighter than traditional plastic.

High index plastic  Thinner and lighter lenses that are a great alternative to traditional plastic for those high prescriptions or trendy frame designs.

Trivex  A shatter resistant material used frequently in safety and children's lens designs with certain prescriptions and particular frame designs.

Our opticians will work with you to design the best possible lens design for your new spectacles.  We take pride in listening to our patients needs and use that information to design a lens for you.  We will pay special attention to your daily activities including the workplace environment, school environment, sporting activities, hunting uses, driving activites and speciality environments. 

We use only premier lens products to provide you with clear, cosmetically appealing lenses.  We are currently working with Prodigy Optical, in Richmond MN to manufacture our lenses. 

The lens designs that we are currenlty able to utilize include...

Bifocals/Trifocals (lined bifocals) These lenses allow clear, comfortable distance vision in the upper portion of the lens and clear, comfortable near vision in the lower portion of the lens.  A trifocal adds an additional line to allow for a small intermediate area.

Progressive lenses (no line bifocals)  These lenses allow us to correct for you, with extreme precision, your distance prescription and near prescription all in one pair of glasses.  The manufacturing of these lenses eliminates the traditional "line" that you may be familiar with in traditional bifocals.  This allows us to theoretically offer an infinite number of focal points to view with, allowing you to see clearly from distance to near and everything in between.  

Photochromic lenses  Also known as "transition lenses," these lenses automatically adjust to changing light levels, looking perfectly clear indoors, but turning dark with exposure to ultraviolet light.  These have become a very good solution to having a pair of glasses for both daily wear and sunwear.

Occupational lenses  Considered speciality lenses by some, these would include bifocals with a near segment on top of the lens, ideal for the electrican or anyone needing near vision above their line of sight.  In addition, many designs exist for the computer user, allowing us to significantly improve your intermediate and near vision and eliminating the strain on your neck that the typical progressive wearer gets when always looking up at the computer montior with the bifocal segment. 

The third step in designing that perfect lens for your new spectacles includes considering several coatings and properties of the lens.  These products allow us to direct light more efficiently through the lens, significantly reduce misdirected light rays which cause glare and haloes, provide scratch properties to the lens and improve upon the cosmetic look of the lenses. 

Our available lens treatments include...

Scratch coating  Several products are available to provide either a tougher front surface scratch coat than what the manufacturer offers or the toughest back and front scratch coat available. 

Anti-reflection  A property of the lens that allows light to more efficiently travel through the lens, allowing less glare and haloes especially with nighttime driving, computer use and viewing glossy sheets of paper.  In addition, anti-reflective lenses almost seem to make the lens disappear in the frame.