progressive prescription glasses

How Do They Work and Why Choose Them?

If you're in your late 40's or older, and diagnosed with presbyopia, your eye care professional has likely suggested progressive lenses. They’re the clear winner over other multifocal lenses which have a choppy look with obvious lines between the differing prescription segments. These lines are associated with age and can make wearing glasses distracting. Progressive lenses solve this problem.

How They Work
If you have a prescription for seeing far away, it'll be worked into the top portion of the lens and followed by your other vision prescriptions.

Progressive lenses tend to work with the natural movements of our head and eyes, although there may be an adjustment period while learning how head movements can affect which part of the lens is being utilized.

For example, when trying to view something far away, the gaze tends to shift slightly upwards which puts the eyes in alignment with the distance prescription at the top of the lense.

Similarly, when we are looking at something only a moderate distance away, our gaze shifts toward the middle of the lense.

When looking down at our phone screen to view a text, our gaze should naturally fall toward where the reading prescription sits within the lens.

When you order progressive glasses online through a service like ours, you save a substantial amount of money. Progressive lens technology can be costly when you buy your glasses from the eye doctor, but paired with our affordable frames you can get the best glasses you need complete with some of the best progressive lenses out there at a highly competitive price.

Frames for progressive Lenses

While progressives are great, they don’t work with all frame types. You’ll need a frame with a minimum lens height of 30mm to accommodate progressive technology… But no need to dig through a bunch of specs! On this page, you’ll find a great selection of stylish frames that are guaranteed to be the right size for progressive lenses.

Types of Progressive Lenses For Any Lifestyle and Need

You’ll still find “standard” progressives on the market, but the technology used to make them is outdated. They lack many of the benefits you get when you use digital manufacturing, such as free form digital design that magnify the area of perfect vision to be as wide as possible. At overnight glasses, we only carry premium progressive lens designs to ensure that our customers are getting the best that current lens technology has to offer.

Progressive Lenses for General And All Day Use

These progressive lenses are personalized to your unique lens prescription and offer a balanced range of distance, intermediate, and near vision for carrying on with everyday tasks. While all of our general progressive offerings are nothing short of premium, some may be a better fit than others.

• Premium - An excellent introduction to freeform digital progressive lenses
• Premium Plus - Offers slight improvements to the near and distance viewing experience
• SHAMIR™ Autograph III - Top of the line performance across all viewing areas
• SEIKO™ Surmount - Our best offering for those with plus (SPH) prescription values

Office & Computer Progressives
These lenses offer clear vision at your near, surrounding environment. Perfect for the office and any detailed activity. Using these lenses is known to reduce head tilting and bobbing which ultimately may reduce headaches, neck pain and eye strain. Add our Blue Armor lenses for complete blue light protection.

Progressive Lenses for Driving
Lenses that are tailored to those who spend a lot of time behind the wheel. They boast a wider corridor and vision area for distance viewing with smooth transitions to view your side mirrors. Together with reduced “image jumps” and other potentially hazardous visual distortions, this lens design guarantees a better and safer driving experience.

Progressive Lenses for Driving
Lenses that are tailored to those who spend a lot of time behind the wheel. They boast a wider corridor and vision area for distance viewing with smooth transitions to view your side mirrors. Together with reduced “image jumps” and other potentially hazardous visual distortions, this lens design guarantees a better and safer driving experience.

Progressive lenses for Golf & Sport
These personalized progressives are the ideal fit for those who want to play at their best. Their wide distance vision area paired with the placement of the intermediate/near vision prescriptions promotes clear, crisp viewing and provides a significant edge over general use progressive lenses.

Pros & cons of Progressive Eyeglasses

For the right person, progressive lens glasses could be the perfect fit, but there are some things to keep in mind before buying progressive eyeglasses online. Below we'll touch on a few of the progressive glasses pros and cons.

Pros

• One pair of glasses to cover all of your needs
• No visible lines in the lens
• Stylish

Cons

• The lack of lines might mean more of a "learning curve" with getting used to where parts of your prescription end and begin
• The magnified bottom and edges portions of progressive lenses may cause mild visual distortions, which might lead to tripping at first if you aren’t careful. This should resolve when you get used to looking through the middle of the lens while walking.