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We're going to talk about the lenses that go into the frames for your child. Almost,
probably 9 times out of 10 we're going to recommend polycarbonate lenses over plastic
lenses for your child. There are going to be a few exceptions to the rule but I tell
you why we do recommend that. Especially for children, I would say, between the ages of
5 and obviously younger. Even though we don't see younger children here but 5 to about 13.
If they're going to be rambunctious and they're going to be playing in the glasses. You want
to have shatter resistant lenses. You don't want to have a call from your school saying
that your child was hit in the face with a ball while they had their glasses on and their
lenses shattered back in their face. You don't want to have that. You would never, ever consider
glass lenses for a child. Plastic still has the ability to shatter. Polycarbonate is the
safety resistant lens for a child. They will not shatter back. Drawback to polycarbonate
is it will scratch easier. So there's really just no getting around that. The child is
going to be rougher on their glasses. They will wind up with scratches on them. But you
definitely want to protect the child's eye from any type of impact. So even though that
the plastic is more scratch resistant. If your child is going to be active in the glasses
then you want to do polycarbonate. If the doctor says: Mr. and Mrs. Jones your child
needs glasses but they only need them for when they're studying. Then you might consider
doing a plastic lens if the child is not going to be wearing their glasses with the possibility
of getting hit in the face or something like that. If they're using it just to do their
homework. Just in the class room only then they can get by without using the polycarbonate
lenses. Other than that. Like I said, 9 times out of 10 we recommend polycarbonate lenses.
If your child has a very high prescription. gain you kind of have to weigh the protection
of the lenses with a thickness. Sometimes a child comes back with a really high prescription.
And that's unfortunate. If you go with a high index plastic, which would be considerably
thinner then polycarbonate you still have a risk of that lens shattering back. So you
kind of have to weigh those factors in the decision of what lenses to go with. And like
I said, 9 times out of 10 polycarbonate is going to be your choice.