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Best Frames for High Index Lenses

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With high index glass or plastic, it takes less physical material to cut a prescription than it would with standard glass or plastic. This is particularly noticeable – and beneficial – if your prescription is a strong one. Create a strong prescription in standard material and you’ll get a thick, heavy lens, one that probably distorts the perceived size of your eyes. Create a strong prescription in high index material and you’ll discover a noticeable lessening of distortion or magnification, and lenses that are considerably lighter and thinner. One of the side benefits to this is that high index lenses offer greater flexibility in frame selection.

What Are the Best Frames for High Index Lenses?

A popular choice for people ordering high index lenses is a rimless frame – probably because this was a frame choice that was previously off-limits to anyone with a strong prescription. With rimless frames, a lens is suspended by a thin brow bridge and open on the bottom; this design cannot accommodate thick, heavy lenses, or lenses with very thick, curved edges. Since high index lenses can greatly reduce weight, thickness, and edge bulk, rimless glasses are now compatible with stronger prescription lenses.

Another good option, also previously verboten with strong prescription standard-material lenses, is thin wire metal frames. This style shares the same limitations as rimless frames; they cannot adequately support the weight of lenses that are too heavy, and thick edges protrude so far past the narrow, nearly invisible metal frames that too much attention is draw to the sides of the lenses.

If you wear thick, heavy lenses, you’ll need to support them properly and disguise their bulk behind thick, plastic, darkly-colored or patterned frames. High index lenses may reduce your lenses significantly enough that you can now consider Aviators or any of the other traditional, stylish gold or silver metal frame formats.

Limitations and Practicalities of High Index Lenses

It’s worth noting that if your prescription is strong enough to require high index glass lenses, the rimless frame option might not be open to you. High index glass lenses are even heavier that standard glass lenses and, depending on your exact prescription, rimless frames might not be able to support them. If your prescription is extreme enough, high index lenses may only be available to you in glass…thus not in a rimless format.

There really isn’t any one frame style that is best for high index lenses. Style is subjective. What’s important is that high index lenses open up frame options that might not be possible with standard lenses. Any frame style that supports standard-material lenses can support high index lenses, but it doesn’t work the other way around – some frames that support high index lenses cannot be used for lenses made of standard materials. High index lenses may just allow you to branch out into frame styles that you’ve never tried before.

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how to order high index glasses

1. SELECT THE FRAME

RX Safety offers a wide range of frames that will match perfectly with your high index lenses. Choose between eyeglassessunglasses, or check out our High Index Glasses collection here.

AFTER CHOOSING THE PERFECT FRAME, CLICK IN ‘SELECT PRESCRIPTION LENSES’

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2. SELECT LENS MATERIAL

Inside our prescription form, you can select your prescription type. Choose between single vision and progressive bifocal. Then, you will choose your lens material. This is where you select your high index lenses.

AFTER CHOOSING YOUR PRESCRIPTION TYPE, SELECT high index lenses under LENS material

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3. SELECT LENS COLOR

Customize your lenses by choosing your lens color, including Transition options.

SELECT YOUR FAVORITE LENS COLOR

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4. ADD EXTRA COATINGS

The high index lenses can be upgraded with special coatings such as anti-reflect, and anti-reflectiver coating with hydro fobic (AR) to improve the overall performance of the glasses.

SELECT YOUR PREFERRED COATINGS TO UPGRADE YOUR high index LENS

5. ADD YOUR PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION

Now it is the time to upload or fill your prescription information. You’re done! The rest is with us. We will work on your high index glasses and deliver to your address.

ADD YOUR PRESCRIPTION INFORMATION

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