Selecting Your Glasses.

If you need prescription lenses, you have a wide variety of lens types and frames to choose from, so you can look your best as well as see your best. However, not all lens sizes, tints and materials are appropriate for all prescriptions. Eyeglasses are designed, first and foremost, to meet your individual vision needs. Discuss you activities and fashion preferences with your optometrist, so that your glasses will meet your vision needs and enhance your appearance.

What you should know about contact lenses.

If you need or prefer contact lenses, there are basically four different types of contact lenses to choose from. Standard rigid (hard), oxygen permeable hard lenses, soft lenses and extended-wear lenses. Although not all lenses are appropriate for all vision conditions, contacts can be great seeing aids for people of all ages. But, remember, contact lenses are a custom made health aid and, to a large degree, successful wear depends on the professional skills and knowledge of your doctor of optometry.

If you decide to get contacts, seek a skilled optometrist who offers a variety of lenses and provides complete optometric care, including follow-up examinations which enable him or her to give you continuous professional treatment.

Set your sights on good vision.

Now that you have read this pamphlet, we hope that you will remember how important vision is to you and your family: When your children go to school, when you pick up a newspaper or book, when you play your favorite sport, when you get behind the wheel of your car, and when you work at your job.

And, we hope that you will remember that thorough, professional optometric care is good way to make sure that you are seeing well, being more productive and enjoying life more.

How well are you seeing?

How well are you seeing? Are supermarket signs blurred? Is your newsprint getting fuzzy? Is it more and more difficult to see to drive at night?

And what about your children? Do you know how well they're seeing? There's more to good vision than scoring 20/20 on a school screening or at the driver's license bureau. And there's more to vision problems than the obvious symptoms of blurred vision or needing more light to see.

Having basic knowledge about good vision and common vision conditions is the first step you should take to help assure a lifetime of good vision for you and your family.

The second step is building a good relationship with a doctor of optometry who will provide the professional care your eyes deserve.

Myth about 20/20 vision.

Though your child may have 20/20 vision, that doesn't guarantee perfect vision. It means he or she can see 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. There are other interrelated vision skills that contribute to good vision, which need to be examined annually by an optometrist. These skills can affect how well your child performs.