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I’m Melissa with Woolenton Optometry for Expert Village here to tell you how to choose
your eyeglasses. Antireflective treatments are one of the most important things that
you can get on your lenses. What an antireflective treatment does is that it cuts the glare from
nighttime driving, takes the star effect away, it also helps with eyestrain, if you do a
lot of computer work it cuts the reflections from that as well, and for fluorescent lighting
I found that it works really well in there environment as, also. An antireflective coating,
there is something to be careful about when you purchase one. You want to make sure that
you actually don’t get a coating but get the treatment, get the one that’s incorporated
into the lens. Coatings do tend to peel and chip over time, but the treatments will not,
and it also includes an extra scratch coating on there, UV protection should also be included
as well and one of the other things an antireflective treatment does cosmetically speaking is like
with this lens here, you have the one lens with the anti-reflective and the other lens
without and you can see the reflection on the lens without versus the one with, all
the white spots equal the reflection. Visually an anti-reflective treatment allows you to
see more clearly so, because the light is bounced, instead of the light bouncing off
the lens, it’s passing through the lens so one of the things also to keep in mind
is that since you’re seeing things more clearly you’re also going to notice the
scratches a little bit more, you’re going to notice fingerprints a little bit more so
you do have to clean your glasses and take care of them a little bit better and that’s
the characteristics of an anti-reflective lens.