What Are Plano Lenses?
Plano lenses are simply optical lenses which provide no corrective power. That is to say. Plano lenses are eyeglasses lenses that provide no vision correction. They are in widespread use as protective equipment or safety spectacles designed to protect against eye injuries caused by flying dust, metal, wood chips, and other particles.
What Does Plano Mean for Glasses?
If you need a pair of plano glasses, you will see the term plano, PL or 0.00 in the Sphere box on your eye prescription paper. That means that the lens has no corrective power. If only either of your eyes requires correction, you may be given a pair of glasses that as one corrective lens for the affected eye and a plano lens for the unaffected eye.
Do You Need Plano Glasses?
Many people choose to wear plano glasses or glasses without prescription just for cosmetic reasons, without any need for vision correction. Normally, glasses frames without a prescription come with a pair of cheap plastic demo lenses.
Since there is no corrective effect on plano glasses, some people choose wear plano glasses for protecting their eyes from dust, and other flying objects. In addition, plano lenses come in a variety of protective coatings - anti-glare, scratch-resistant, blue light coating, UV coating to provide all around protection to the eyes.
So, if you want to protect your eyes from some unexpected damage, you can choose to wear the plano glasses and they would not bring any damage to your eyes.
Plano Lenses vs Demo Lenses
When talking about the plano lenses, demo lenses will be talked about, too. Plano lenses are different from demo lenses. Demo lenses are nothing but lenses that are fitted into the demo frames at the optical showroom and workshops. The only purpose of demo lenses is to give a realistic aesthetic of the frame to the users so that they can get an idea of how it would look with corrective lenses. However, there is also no corrective power on demo lenses.
Compared with demo lenses, plano lenses provide good quality lenses that give your protection against harmful UV rays and blue light emitted from digital screens like laptops and desktops. In addition, you can also add an anti-glare coating to the plano glasses.
To sum up, this post from Koalaeye Optical has shown some information about plano lenses. If you have any different ideas for plano glasses, share them in the comment zone. If you have any problems with glasses or sunglasses, you can contact us via the email service@koalaeye.com and we will reply to you as soon as possible.
