Use if High Index Lenses for Pediatric Eyewear

**chip anderson** · 01-27-2005, 07:21 AM

The absolute worst thing you can do is tell a child patient that the glasses (frames or lenses) are unbreakable. I have had many frames that a pair of determined adults would have a very difficult time destroying. However it the child (or the parent within the child's hearing) was told that they were unbreakable, the frame or lenses wouldn't last a week.

Chip

**drk** · 01-27-2005, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by Uncle Fester

Be sure the optician measures and fits the optical center of these lenses to the base of the little ones pupil. This may affect the thickness but RUN, don't walk, out of a store that disagrees!

Are you talking about dropping the OC 3-4 mm to correspond to 6-8 degrees of pantoscopic tilt?

Informed:
Flexon frames are generally considered the toughest frame on the market. It would be what I'd put my 2 y.o. in, if he needed glasses, and I have one. You're a good parent to try for the best for your little one.

**con** · 01-27-2005, 11:12 AM

Can someone explain to me why you are so into the idea of giving polycarbonate lenses to kiddies. I would have thought that any plastic lens would do fine in terms of impact resistance. I mean , a three year old isn't going to be playing hockey or hanging around building sites or factory floors.
I'm not trolling, just curious.
con

**shanbaum** · 01-27-2005, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by con

Can someone explain to me why you are so into the idea of giving polycarbonate lenses to kiddies. I would have thought that any plastic lens would do fine in terms of impact resistance. I mean , a three year old isn't going to be playing hockey or hanging around building sites or factory floors.
I'm not trolling, just curious.
con

Maybe not, but a three-year-old is quite likely to fall onto an object (perhaps one he is carrying) that could strike and penetrate or break a lens, or cause a lens to be ejected from its frame.

**optowalt** · 01-28-2005, 11:14 AM

This may sound rather simple but does the Informed Consumer trust the person making the glasses? If he/she does, why the questions. If not, why are they there?