Choose the Best Progressive Lenses For You

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If you suffer from refractive vision issues, the informational graphics below can help you choose which progressive lens option is best for you—standard, premium, or elite.
A hispanic woman holds a new pair of eyeglasses with progressive lenses to check her vision. she is wearing red lipstick, has white teeth, and is smilling.
Standard: Excellent all purpose progressive design with fast dapation and strong performance in all visual fields. Benefits: A particularly wide field of view for a basic progressive design. Performance statistics: 
Distance: 8/10
Intermediate: 5/10
Reading: 7/10
Constant: 7/10

Premium: Recommended for prebyopes choosing their first progressive design. Benefits: Consistent Optical performance with an automatic corridor selection ensuring the best lens chosen for individual requirements. The hard design has wider fields of view.
Performance statistics:
Distance: 9/10
Intermediate: 7/10
Reading: 8/10
Constant: 7/10

Elite: Designed to excel in all visual departments, this is the ultra-premium everyday lens. Benefits: Minimal swim effects and provides excellent patient comfort and rapid adaptation. The hard design has wider fields of view.
Performance statisitcs:
Distance: 10/10
Intermediate: 8/10
Reading: 8/10
Constant: 8/10
Standard: Narrower field of view. Excellent all purpose progressive design with fast adapation and strong performance in all visual fields.
Performance statistics: 
Distance: 8/10
Intermediate: 5/10
Reading: 7/10
Constant: 7/10

Premium: Wide field of view. Recommended for presbyopes choosing their first progressive design.
Performance statistics:
Distance: 9/10
Intermediate: 7/10
Reading: 8/10
Constant: 7/10

Elite: Widest field of view. Designed to excel in all visual departments, this is the ultra-premium everyday lens.
Performance statisitcs:
Distance: 10/10
Intermediate: 8/10
Reading: 8/10
Constant: 8/10

Progressive lenses combine three prescriptions into a single lens so that patients who struggle with presbyopia, myopia, or other refractive vision issues can see at close, intermediate, and distant ranges.

What is the difference between progressive lenses?

Differences include clarity at different ranges, adaptation to different environments, eye strain reduction and comfort, and overall performance. The best lenses do everything well. The opposite of that is a budget lens (we do not sell poor quality lenses here) that does one thing well. So, what is the difference? The best progressive lenses provide two benefits that are difficult to put together into a single lens:

  1. Clarity at all distances
  2. A wide field of view.

Only our elite lenses combine clarity, comfort, adaptability, and the widest field of view. When you simplify things, the difference is more about how a progressive lens fits your lifestyle. m

What Progressive Lens Should I Choose?

Every patient is different, but what is always true is that the highest-quality progressive lenses are the best all-around lenses, providing clear vision in all situations, from reading to driving to sightseeing.

Please take a look at the progressive lens infographic below. It’s been reviewed and approved by a licensed optometrist and is easy to understand. Choose between Standard, Premium, and Elite lenses, and then schedule an appointment online to get new eyeglasses the same day.

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