Our on site lab enables us to provide rapid, accurate eyeglass service. We are committed to using the highest quality lenses and coatings worked on by skilled, experienced opticians. Our state of the art patternless edger enables our optician to accurately cut and assemble even the most difficult of jobs, with a perfectly sized and shaped lens.
Lenses are inspected at least 3 times before they are dispensed to a patient, with the final inspection performed by a person other than the one who cut and assembled the job.
Two factors are critical in providing optimal vision with prescription eyeglass lenses: (1) the optical quality of the lens (2) precision placement of the lens in the frame.
First is the optical quality of the lens. The level of quality can vary greatly from one lens to another. There are no less than 9 different types of aberrations and distortions that occur when light passes through a lens. High quality lenses are designed to minimize these distortions and exhibit superior optics, thereby easing adaptation. Cheaply manufactured lenses do little to minimize these distortions, and poor quality control may not detect subtle manufacturing defects or warping.
The second factor is the skill and precision with which the lens is placed into the frame. The best quality lens is only as good as the workmanship and accuracy with which it is placed into the frame. In some cases, margins of error as little as 1 degree or 1 millimeter may be enough to reduce the desired effect of the prescription.
High diopter and unusual prescriptions must be made at surfacing labs. Commitment to quality varies greatly, and we use only the best labs available. Money saved by using "cut rate" labs is not worth the aggravation of dealing with delays needed to reorder less than acceptable work. It is well worth the extra money spent for a quality lab to insure the rapid, accurate supply of high precision prescription lenses. These are the same labs that can be counted on to consistently supply lenses quickly when needed for emergency service.
When comparing lens prices, make sure you are really comparing "apples to apples." Opticians using less than optimal materials or coatings are unlikely to admit this, but common sense dictates that prices quoted at significantly less than the quality optical shops, are generally using less expensive, lower quality lenses. Profits are enhanced at these establishments by using less experienced labor, and by having lower standards of inspection, reducing the lens remake rate. |
