Progressive glasses

Progressive glasses require an adaptation process to coordinate your vision with slight head movements. It sounds complicated, but it isn't. Here are some tips to help you get familiar with your new glasses as quickly as possible:

• Spend the first few hours with your new glasses at home. Get used to the different depths in the comfort of your home.
• Learn to look. The way you are used to looking changes since you need to follow with your head and eye movement. If you only move your eyes, you will see through the blurry areas on the sides.
• Adjust your glasses correctly. At first, they may not be properly adjusted. To do this, it is important that you are looking through the correct part of the lens, so if you are unsure, come to our store, and we will adjust them again.
• Give it time. Some people may see something blurry at the edge of the lenses. It can take a few days, or even a week, to get used to them. But don't worry, this is completely normal.

Lastly, you may be interested to know that at Miller & Marc, we offer a three-month guarantee on all our progressive glasses, meaning that if you don't adapt the first time, we will make new lenses with personalized adjustments to improve adaptation. And if you still can't adapt to the progressive glasses, we will offer you an alternative lens option. Ultimately, we will facilitate a product return at no cost to you.

Some call it tired vision, but its real name is presbyopia. The main cause of presbyopia is age: over the years, the eye's lens hardens due to aging. This makes it less flexible and, therefore, harder to change shape to focus on nearby images, causing these images to appear out of focus.

The transparent lens is located inside the eye, behind the colored iris. When you are younger, the lens is soft and flexible and can easily change shape, adapting to the field of vision and the distance of the objects you want to see. This allows you to focus on objects both near and far. After the age of 40, the lens becomes more rigid and cannot change shape easily.

There is no way to stop or reverse the normal aging process that causes presbyopia. However, there are methods to correct presbyopia, such as using progressive glasses.
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We often wonder when to choose progressive glasses... Most of us start having trouble reading small print or seeing up close between the ages of 40-45. And this is when our friends, the progressives, come into play.

 There are many advantages to buying progressive glasses. They are ideal for people who suffer from presbyopia combined with another type of visual defect, such as myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism... as they correct all these problems in one lens. Although you can also use them if you suffer exclusively from presbyopia.

In short, progressive glasses have a "simple" function: if you want to see far away, you would do so as if looking at the horizon, that is, through the upper part of the lens. If you want to read something up close, you need to look through the lower part of the lens. Because instinctively, you would do it that way. And in the intermediate zone? There you will progressively find all the intermediate distances.

To be honest: a few years ago, using progressive glasses was a real odyssey. They were expensive, caused dizziness, and were unattractive...

In recent years, this has changed. Technology advances, and fortunately, it also does so in the world of vision. These advances have made it so that there are hardly any discomforts when switching from single vision glasses to progressive glasses, and the adaptation time is at most a few days (most adapt spontaneously).

ADVANTAGES

• You will only need one pair of glasses: with them, you can see up close, far away, and at intermediate distances.
  
  
• They are more aesthetic than bifocals: even though progressives provide continuous vision between different zones, it is not noticeable from the outside.
  
  
• Savings: because you have surely heard that progressives are expensive but... isn't it more expensive to buy three different pairs of glasses?
  
  
• Forget about the problems caused by forgetting your reading glasses at home. With progressives, you will always have clear vision.
  
  

DISADVANTAGES

• Adaptation: You have to learn to look with them. But don't worry, with digital Freeform technology, this is much easier than a few years ago.
  
  
• At first, you may see blurry. You will need to turn your head more frequently and not just make eye movements, as this can cause dizziness. Freeform lenses improve the fields, and this effect is less noticeable.

The main difference is that while bifocal glasses only offer two zones of vision (a large one for distance vision and the lower part of the lens for near vision), progressives have an intermediate vision range.

With bifocal glasses, the person must move closer to or farther from the object to see it clearly through one of the two parts of the lens.

This mainly means additional effort for the user, which can be avoided by using progressive glasses.

 There are two types of progressive lenses:

• Standard progressive lenses.
• Digitally manufactured or high-end progressive lenses.

Standard progressive lenses are practically obsolete. The digital progressive lenses we use at Miller & Marc are made with modern digital software, making them much more complete and customizable.

The main difference between standard progressives and digital manufacturing is in the quality of vision. Digitally manufactured lenses with Freeform technology provide a wider visual field and a smooth transition between the different parts of the lens.

Another main difference is the minimization of lateral aberrations, which are nothing more than blurry vision. How do they achieve this? With personalized digital carving that perfectly fits your needs and usage preferences.

We specialize in high-end progressive lenses: with Freeform digital technology, which has the best features on the market.

• A visual field up to 40% wider than conventional lenses.
• Improvements in night vision or low-light conditions.
• Enhanced contrast: sharpen vision.
• Enhanced color vision: maximize the optics of your lenses, providing brighter and more intense colors.

At Miller & Marc, we believe in transparency and fair pricing, which is why our progressive glasses are high-quality and affordably priced. Check the exact price here.  

 Progressive lenses are designed with multiple prescriptions within the same lens. The upper part is for long distance, the lower part focuses on short distance, and the central part is in between. So you can read that message you just received on your phone while enjoying a sunset with total clarity.