How to Tighten Glasses by Yourself
After your glasses being used for a while, they will become loosen. In this situation, you may want to ask for a professional optical person to adjust or tighten it. It would be a way but with some inconvenience. So, you can also choose to tighten glasses by yourself.
Why the glasses will become loose? It can be caused by various reasons. Most people wear and remove their glasses several times every day. The back and forth movements of the glasses’ arms will increase the possibility that they will become loose.
If the glasses become loose, you can choose to tighten them by adjusting the temple arms. Most eyeglasses have a screw located at the temple hinge on both sides. To tighten glasses by yourself, you can choose to tighten this screw to make your glasses more comfortable or prevent them from slipping down your nose again. You had better check these screws periodically so you can tighten them before they fall out.
What are the causes of lens damage?
When the force area of the lens is small, the impact resistance of the lens is worse. When subjected to the impact of external forces, the lens will naturally be squeezed and cause breakage.
In particular, some lenses with low degrees and high refractive index are possible to cause this phenomenon. When the frame fell from a height due to wrong placement, there is a collision between the edge of the lens and the ground or hard objects. It will produce a broken or collapsed edge. In the process of the lens falling from high, the impact force is larger, and the stress point is smaller. When the glasses are falling, the upper edge of the lens, the convex groove of the upper frame, squeezes against the lens. The middle part of the upper half is easy to cause edge collapse. In the process of processing the template, the template is not accurate, so that the glasses side and the frame can not be uniform fusion, and the force of the lens is uneven. It will be easy to lead to greater stress in some parts, resulting in edge collapse.
How to stop glasses hurting behind ears?
When adjusting glasses to the optical shop, you can let the staff check if the bending hook is flat. If there is a problem, put it on the polishing machine. The most important thing is that when adjusting the glasses, the height of the glasses temple should be adjusted according to the shape of each person's face, to further increase the comfort of the glasses. Furthermore, if you do not want to go to the optical store, you can make the glasses temple a little loose at home or put a little cotton or paper towel in the ear to prevent friction. You can buy soft eyewear online or at an eyeglass store to prevent ear friction and injury
When do you need prism glasses?
If you experience symptoms of headache, dizziness, and nausea, then these symptoms may be caused by a subtle disorder between the eyes. This situation is called Binocular Vision Dysfunction(BVD). Double vision occurs in the situation that light enters the eye at the wrong angle and sends two different images to the brain. Some people have diplopia, where they can see only one image, and flat images are often blurry. Prism glasses can help to change visual deformities. Prism lenses can be helpful to prevent myopia and farsightedness in both eyes. If vision deteriorates in one eye, the eye muscle can use an external corrective prism to prevent blindness. Standard glasses are made of a combination of prisms that can correct the focal length errors and corneal curvature. The prism moves the image up and down or left and right to form an overall view.
Evolution of photochromic lenses
Thirty years after Corning invented color-changing glass lenses, another company has carried forward the color-changing glass lenses --Transitions Optical. In 1991, it became the first company to commercially manufacture resin color-changing lenses. Since its inception, the company has been a joint venture between PPG Industries (51%) and Essilor (49%). In April 2014, Essilor acquired a 51% stake in PPG. At present, the mainstream is resin photochromic lenses.
The Benefits of Anti-Glare Glasses
As is well known, glare is the excessive brightness caused by direct light or reflected light. It often occurs when sunlight bounces off a reflective surface like water or snow. Of course, anti-glare glasses can also be caused by other factors.
Standard plastic lenses are able to reflect approximately 8% of the light that reaches your glasses and high-index lenses often reflect up to 12% of available light. Hence, anti-glare glasses come in a lot of advantages.
The anti-reflective glasses can reduce eye strain and make your eyeglasses look more attractive because the anti-reflective coating can eliminate reflections from the front and back surfaces of your eyeglass lenses. With this feature, more light can pass through your lenses to improve your vision with fewer distractions and the lenses look nearly invisible.
In addition, anti-glare glasses are helpful to high-index lenses, which reflect more light than regular plastic lenses. In general, the higher the index of refraction of the lens material, the more light will be reflected from the surface of the lenses.
Anti-glare glasses can protect your eyes from UV rays (sunlight that doesn’t appear on our visual spectrum). This feature can be enhanced by some photochromatic or polarized lenses.
What are bendable glasses called?
Bendable frames, or memory metal frames, are metal frames that can be twisted, bent, and shattered without breaking or losing their original shape. It's made of a kind of smart metal that has a memory. Its microstructure has two relatively stable states. At high temperatures, the alloy can be changed into any shape you want. Memory metals are mainly nickel-titanium alloy and other materials. The structure of these alloys varies with temperature in the solid-state, the shapes of these alloys can be changed as needed, and will automatically return to their original shape at a given temperature. One unique aspect is its ability to return to its original shape, although the frame has been twisted, bent, or crushed. They are lighter and more durable than traditional metal frames. The bendable frames are made of composite metal alloys for bending properties. These lenses can be twisted and bent, and when they are released, they return to their original shape.
