Anti-reflective Treatments
Provide A Little Bit Of Everything.
More comfort. Better vision. Reduced glare from oncoming
headlights. Greater cosmetic appeal. It might be hard to believe, but
anti-reflective treatments can provide all of these benefits—as an add-on for
any number of lens products. The same technology used to provide anti-reflective
benefits to precision lenses in microscopes and cameras, is now available to
enhance your healthy sight.
An anti-reflective treatment applied on the front and the
back of prescription lenses greatly reduces the light reflected by the lens
surfaces. As a result, your eyes appear clearer behind the lenses, vision is
more defined, and glare from reflected objects—especially headlights at night—is
virtually eliminated. Plus, if you have a high-powered “strong” prescription,
anti-reflective coating makes your eyes appear more natural.
How anti-reflective treatments works.
Carefully calibrated layers of metal oxides are applied to
the front and the back of the lenses. Each of these layers is designed to block
reflected light. That includes glare, annoying reflections, and the hazy “halos”
you often see around lights at night.
Take special care to use only the cleaning agents
recommended by your eye care professional, as anti-reflective treatments are
delicate by design. They work well for sunglasses too—but as a general rule
should only be applied to the back side of the lens to eliminate glare reflected
around the sides of the frame.