Varifocals have a wide scope of prescription strengths in the same lens, meaning they have a wider “corridor” over which vision is close to natural. This allows you to select the best lens strength to view objects at any distance, near or far. This “corridor” of change in lens power is what makes varifocals so [...]
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Varifocals – What Are They and How Do They Work?
January 9th, 2011 by Aakash Shah
Posted in Progressive Lenses 
Tags: multifocal lenses, Progressive Lenses, Varifocal Lenses 
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February 14th, 2010 by Aakash Shah
It used to be in our parents generation the only choice that was offered were those old fogey looking bifocal lenses, but thank goodness with the technology offered today our vision choices give us quite a few more options, one of them being progressive lenses. They are often known as no-line bifocals as the visible [...]
Posted in lens Tags: multifocal lenses, Progressive Lens, Progressive Lenses, Varilux Lenses No Comments »Advantages and types of progressive lenses
October 30th, 2009 by Aakash Shah
Progressive lenses for presbyopia have some advantages over traditional bifocal lenses and trifocals, all of which belong to multifocal lenses. There are no visible lines on progressive lenses, which attract certain group of people in their 40s who care deeply about their appearances. Furthermore, progressive lenses provide clear and comfortable vision at all distance including [...]