subject: Buying Affordable and Accurate Progressive Eyeglasses: [print this page] Buying Affordable and Accurate Progressive Eyeglasses:
Progressive glasses are very popular among people who are suffering from presbyopia along with lined bifocal glasses. There are many manufacturer offering progressive lenses and the prices can vary from $30 to hundreds of dollars. But before you buy progressive glasses it is important that you do some research as these are glasses are expensive and you would not want to buy glasses time and again. Here are some tips and suggestion on how to buy progressive glasses at reasonable price.
First of all it is important that you get your vision tested for latest prescription before you start looking for new progressive glasses. As it is a common tendency that the visions from current glasses are fine thus we try and use the same prescription to avoid eye exam or feel lazy to get an appointment.
After you get your prescription you would need to look for a good optician who can offer you reasonable progressive glasses and has a good skill. Before you buy glasses be sure that you inquire about their exchange policy as progressive glasses are much more complicated than conventional glasses and the alignment should be perfect. If the optician is not well experience they may not be able to align the glasses thus the glasses will be unusable.
You can find good opticians locally or over the internet who can offer you good reasonable progressive glasses. Once you place an order do make sure that you provide them with all the information regarding how you wear you glasses, pupillary distance, whether or not you have used progressive glasses earlier, whether or not you are comfortable with larger frames and how you will use your glasses. According to the information that you provide optician will be able to recommend the lenses that would suite your needs.
