We REALLY want to give away another pair of glasses to a lucky Facebook fan - but we need more fans!  We are at 441 fans, when we reach 500 the next lucky Fan will be drawn at random to receive a complementary pair of eyeglasses*.  If you are not yet a fan click here, then tell your friends and family - when they join, your chances of winning increase.

Good luck, and we'll see you on Facebook.

* Every time Mountain View Optometry's Facebook page gains 100 Fans, a complete pair of glasses will be awarded to one of our Fans drawn at random.  Prescription lenses plus frame of your choice, value up to $1,000.

Time to get your eyes checked?  Request an appointment online and take a proactive step towards healthy eyes and clear vision. 

There have been a few good questions lately about our recommendations on internet eyeglass purchasing.  While online purchasing may be attractive for a few reasons (eg. pricing), there are some important things to know before adding those glasses to your online shopping cart and entering your visa number.

1.         The Measurements

Prescription eyeglasses are custom made medical devices.  Who is taking the necessary measurements, and how accurate are they?  Here's a primer on some of the data we look at carefully during your eyewear selection and measurement process:

The pupillary distance, (PD) is the distance between the very centers of each of your pupils.  It's impossible to make glasses accurately without this.  Depending on the nature of your prescription, we may also need an optical centre height, which is the distance of the centre of your pupils to the bottom rim of the glasses frame ultimately chosen.  We also look at the face form tilt, or the curvature of your eyeglass frame as seen from above.  Certain prescriptions work well in a higher face form tilt while others need one much lower.  The new high-technology digital progressive lenses also require vertex distance (measurement from the back of the lens to the front of your eye) and pantoscopic tilt (amount by which the bottom of your frame tilts inward towards your cheekbones). 

Many of us look through our glasses every waking hour.  The costs of just one critical measurement being off even slightly can result in vision problems, distortion, eyestrain, headaches and poor visual efficiency.

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The majority of the time our doctors achieve success by professionally fitting our patients into one of the many available options of daily, biweekly or monthly disposable contact lenses.  Our experience along with the technology available today results in more of our patients who successfully wear contact lenses than ever before.  Even bifocal contact lenses and lenses that correct for astigmatism are now available.

Despite this success, quite frequently we hear from our patients who have "hard to fit" eyes - are you one of them?  See if any of the following sound familiar:

-         Every time you get your eyes checked you go through "about a dozen" types of contact lenses before settling on the ones that cause the LEAST amount of trouble for you

-         You constantly are putting up with issues such as dryness, discomfort, or blurry vision while wearing your contacts

-         You have been told, flat out, that because of your "unusual eyeballs" there are no contact lenses available (anywhere) that would work for you

If this describes you, take a look at the new Intelliwave custom soft contact lens.  This is the first fully customizable soft contact lens, allowing us to fit unusually steep or flat eyes.  It's also available for people who have astigmatism.  The great thing about the Intelliwave is that it's available in the latest high-tech material, known as "Silicone Hydrogel".  This is the most breathable material available in a soft contact lens, letting through up to five times more oxygen than a conventional lens.  This, combined with a quarterly replacement schedule, provides even people with very high prescriptions with a healthy contact lens option.

We want you to have the best contact lens wearing experience possible.  Now, this option is available to more of our patients than ever before.  Ask us about the Intelliwave custom high-oxygen disposable contact lens at your next visit.