At Mansfield Vision Center, we have two points of emphasis on glasses:

(1) The prescription is precise – both in the exam portion and the cutting of the glasses, and
(2) The patient is happy – both in the assistance received from the staff in selecting their eye wear and their visual result.

Our job is never complete until both are achieved. We both guarantee and warranty all of our products and services. We tailor our services to the individual, and will help you select a frame that is correct for your face shape and size.

We place no emphasis whatsoever in making glasses in an hour. Our goal is to spend all the time with you that is needed, and give you one-on-one, personalized attention. We prefer to spend more time on your glasses to ensure they are perfect. We prefer to do it right, even if that means it may not be done right now.

iFrames

Let’s face it – spectacles serve two purposes. The first is obvious: they hold the lenses in front of your eyes so that you can see. The second few people want to admit but we all know is true – they make a fashion statement. Spectacles help you see, and make you feel comfortable being seen.

We offer a wide variety of designer frames, in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Our primary spectacle frame provider is Marchon. Some of Marchon’s designer frames we have at Mansfield Vision Center include:

• Coach
• Flexon/Autoflex
• Nautica
• AirLock (rimless/drill mount)
• Calvin Klein/CK
• Tres Jolie
• Karl Lagerfeld
… and for the kids:
• Disney
• Disney Princess

To view the many frame styles available,
visit www.marchon.com

 

Tura frames (Lulu Guiness, Tourneau) are also available at Mansfield Vision Center. To view some options, link to www.tura.com

Our SmartClips line (by E’lite Eyewear) is also very popular. The SmartClips are fashionable spectacle frames with a magnetized clip-on sunglass included. The clip-on exactly matches the frame’s shape. Just clip ‘em on and presto – cool sunglasses.aCheck them out at eliteeyewear.com

Sunglasses

Maui Jim is a well-respected sunglass manufacturer, renowned for high lens quality. All of the Maui Jim sunglasses come with polarized lenses; these are very high optical-quality lenses that cut down on direct, reflected, and bounce-back glare.

Maui Jim lenses have a polarizing film that absorbs 99.9% of reflected glare: light waves that are reflected from flat, smooth, or shiny surfaces (sources include water, snow, windshields, dashboards, pavement, airborne dust particles, and water molecules). This maximizes the amount of usable light that reaches the eye, so it can see detail and interpret color with maximum impact. Direct glare (bright light emanating from the sun) is reflected using a bi-gradient mirror. Bounce-back glare, or light from beside or behind you that reflects off the backside of your sunglasses, is caught and absorbed by an anti-reflective treatment. No more seeing your eyelashes reflected off the backside of the lenses.

There are two new options from Maui Jim.  First, a limited number of prescriptions can be cut for their frames now.  Second, they have a new line called Maui Jim Readers.  These have no distance correction on the top and bifocals at the bottom, for the over-forty sunglass wearer.  They are ideal for contact-lens wearers who need readers over the contacts, or those over forty with perfect distance vision.  Come in and check them out!

Also, come see our collection of the always popular Ray-Ban line.  The classic Wayfarer is now available in a foldable frame!

Protective Sports Wear

The United States is definitely a sports-crazy country. Over 50 million American men, women, and children participate in sports that may pose a serious threat to their eyes. Did you know that 40% of all eye injuries between the ages of 11 and 14 are sports-related? Or that of the estimated 100,000 eye injuries per year in this country, 90% were preventable with the proper protective eyewear? Many athletes (and pseudo-athletes) have been reluctant to wear protective eyewear in the past due to both comfort and style issues. However, today’s protective eyewear is more comfortable than ever before, and most of the new styles are quite fashionable.

Prevent Blindness America strongly recommends that all athletes involved in high or medium risk sports not wear regular street eyewear, but rather proper protective eyewear. High-risk sports were defined as boxing, martial arts, wrestling, and full contact sports. Medium-risk sports were defined as sports that involve the use of a bat or stick, body contact or a combination, such as baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, hockey, racquetball, tennis, badminton, squash, and soccer.

Street eyewear does not have as sturdy a frame nor lenses of sufficient impact-resistance. If a “street frame” is crushed (or the lenses broken), lens shards or mangled metal from the frame can enter the eye, actually causing more damage than if the athlete were not wearing glasses. There is a common misperception that regular glasses provide sufficient eye protection in sports. That may be true if we’re talking about a ping-pong ball, but certainly isn’t true if we’re talking about a line drive on the baseball diamond, a slap-shot hockey puck, or an elbow to the face under the basket! Even in sports that require a helmet or faceguard, there is still danger from sports equipment (like a stick “riding up” a hockey player’s mask) or an opponent’s finger.

The good news is that you can help prevent your child (or yourself) from being sidelined because of a serious eye injury. You can make the decision to help protect their eyes by adding protective sports goggles to their equipment bag. Remember, while protective sports eyewear can provide significant protection, they cannot guarantee to be unbreakable or guard against all foreseeable impacts. However, a quality pair of Rec Specs® equipped with 3 mm thick polycarbonate lenses to meet sport safety standards, can be sight savers since they help keep the eyes and surrounding ocular region protected.

The sports vision specialists at Mansfield Vision Center are armed with Rec Specs® , the most advanced line of prescription and non-prescription protective sports eyewear, to meet the needs of your up-and-coming superstar!

Spectacle Lenses
Breaking Out of the Coke Bottles

Many of our patients with high prescriptions have a common description for their eyeglasses: "coke bottles." Alot of them are not aware that there have been significant improvements in ophthalmic plastics, allowing for better cosmetic appearance with the use of thinner lenses.

All ophthalmic lenses have a certain "index of refraction," which is a number used to indicate the material's ability to bend light. Generally, the higher the index, the greater the ability to bend light; thus, a material with a high index will often dramatically cut down on lens thickness for higher prescriptions. The material is not as dependent upon increased thickness to satisfy the prescription power needed. Another bonus is that the higher-index materials are more impact-resistant, and lighter in weight.

Good Signs for the No-lines.

No-line bifocals, or progressive lenses, have become very popular over the last several years. They have several advantages: they work like a trifocal, giving clear vision at distance, arm's length, and near/reading; they work well for computer users; and your friends are clueless you have to wear bifocals ! The main disadvantage lies in the way they are cut. The curvature of the lens changes gradually top to bottom, which results in peripheral distortion (blur) at the bottom of the lens, and a generally more-narrow reading area compared to a lined bifocal. Some patients have problems adapting.

Newer designs are available which provide a larger area to read through at the bottom of the lens. Additionally, in making the reading area larger the distorted area is pushed further into the periphery. This makes the side-blur much less noticeable to the patient, and allows for more "play" in head and eye movements without losing a clear focus, and a higher success rate.

We are very excited about Johnson & Johnson’s new progressive, the Definity lens. Using technology in which part of the reading power is cut on the lens’ front surface, and part on the back, the Definity gives the absolute widest reading area with the least peripheral distortion of any progressive lens on the market today.

Check it out at: Definity.com