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Polarised Lenses

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All you need to know about Polarised lenses

Reducing Glare and not just reducing brightness

Have you ever worn sunglasses only to still find yourself squinting? This is because sunglasses are designed to reduce brightness, not blinding glare. Glare can cause eye strain or fatigue, and it can also be strong enough to block your vision. Glare can vary from mild discomfort to blinding, and it can be worse with age or if you have lighter coloured eyes. Polarised lenses are designed specifically to reduce this experience.

Glare is caused by light reflecting off horizontal surfaces, such as roads, bodies of water, ice or snow. The light becomes concentrated horizontally, which can be very uncomfortable for your eyes. Glare caused by reflective sunlight can cause discomfort, and in some cases, can even be dangerous. It’s important to protect your vision from harsh, blinding glare by wearing the right lenses.

Ray-Ban Prescription Sunglasses

Polarised versus non polarised

They offer enhanced colour perception, improved visual comfort and optimal UV protection. They make it much easier to see in bright light conditions. Regular sunglasses can provide sufficient UV protection, but they won’t diminish glare.

Polarised lenses are best suited to those who spend a lot of time outdoors. If you take part in activities such as fishing, water sports or driving, you are likely to experience a lot of glare. You can combine polarised lenses with your corrective lens design in order to experience safer, clearer vision.

When polarised sunglasses come into their own

Polarised lenses are particularly beneficial for driving and for certain hobbies. Roads, other cars, puddles and even your dashboard can create glare, which can be very distracting when driving. Polarised lenses can help make your driving experience much safer.

Those who enjoy water sports, or snow sports such as skiing and snowboarding, will also find polarised lenses a convenient solution. This is because glare can be caused by water and snow, making it difficult to see clearly. Wearing polarised lenses for these activities can enhance your vision, creating a more enjoyable experience.

Next steps

If you want some advice as on the best lenses for you, then please pop into our eye surgery in Hailsham. If you are looking at some new sunglasses or even spectacles, then feel free to give us a call on 01323 442062.

Important – Johnson & Johnson Contact Lens Recall

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We have this morning been notified that there has been a product recall for certain contact lenses.

We don’t actually have many customers using these lenses, but wanted to let you know which actual products they are, so you can pop into the surgery and organise replacements.

1-DAY ACUVUE  MOIST for ASTIGMATISM Brand Contact Lenses

Master Lot Numbers 395749, 395750, and 395751

30 Pack Lot Numbers:

1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® for ASTIGMATISM   

BC 8.5, -6.00D/-0.75 X 180 

Lot no 395749 

3957490101

3957490102

3957490103

3957490104

3957490105

3957490106

3957490107

3957490108

3957490109

3957490110

3957490111

3957490112 

1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® for ASTIGMATISM   

BC 8.5, -6.00D/-1.75 X 180 

Lot no 395750

3957500101

3957500102

3957500103

3957500104

3957500105

3957500106

3957500107

3957500108

3957500109

3957500110

3957500111

3957500112 

1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® for ASTIGMATISM   

BC 8.5, -3.50D/-0.75 X 180 

Lot no 395751

3957510101

3957510102

3957510103

3957510104

3957510105

The 1-DAY ACUVUE® MOIST® for ASTIGMATISM Brand Contact Lens lot numbers are displayed in the barcode area on the back or side of each individual unit carton. The lot number is also present on the foil of each individual blister package of the contact lens.

“Johnson & Johnson Vision has voluntarily initiated this Action to ensure you receive the highest quality products. We received a limited number of reports of foreign matter on the contact lens or in the contact lens blister solution. While there has been one report of lens use that resulted in discomfort and eye redness, importantly, there have been no reports of serious adverse events.”

Wolf Eyewear Promotion Day 11th October

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Due to the success of our William Morris Day, we will be holding another day such as this. The next one we are going to be sharing with you is our Wolf Eyewear Promotion Day.

Wolf Eyewear Promotion Day

25% of all Wolf Frames and Lenses

On Friday 11th October at our surgery in the High Street, Hailsham, we will be offering all our customers 25% off all Wolf frames and lenses. This is yet another great offer for all our clients and we are really looking forward to sharing the day with so many customers, current and new.

There will be nibbles offered during the day. Including cakes and a few different drinks. Perhaps gin and tonic, with juice as a soft drink option.

Then from 9-1 we will have Alison Brown from Aeracura providing styling advice on colours that suit complexions. Alison is a style and image consultant who is highly qualified in personalised style, colour and make-up advice. So this will be really interesting to see what options and suggestions she makes for the Wolf Eyewear.

Also for Children

These designs are not just for adults. There are a lot of designs of eyewear for children as well!

Wolf Eyewear Promotion Day

Please join us

Please come along on Friday 11th October. We can’t wait to show off all the different options of eyewear you could have.

See you there!

Wolf Eyewear Promotion Day

William Morris Day – 2nd August

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We are so excited about holding our William Morris Day on the 2nd August!

The promo day will run from 9am until 5pm. We will be showcasing frames from The William Morris London collection.

William Morris Day

From William Morris:

In 1996, Robert Morris created William Morris London – an independent company with a very ‘English’ brand. The aim? To offer designer glasses to every audience, providing superb original designs which continually evolve.

Coupled with the love and pride that goes into creating the frames is the same level of hard work, dedication and personal service that each member of the William Morris London team strive to give their customers on a daily basis.

From humble beginnings to what is today a successful global brand, William Morris London employ staff, agents and distributors all over the world.

Our Offer To You

We will be offering our patients 25% off of any William Morris frame and their lenses too.

There will be refreshments, cupcakes and pink gin and we will be offering frame styling consultations.

We can’t wait to see lots of people on Friday – customers and friends we already know, but also new people for Focus Eye Centre!

William Morris Day

Using The New Slit Lamp

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At Focus Eye Centre we are always looking for new and innovative ways to treat our patients and customers. Here we show Amanda, at work using the new slit lamp we have just invested in.

The slit lamp is a Hanson CSO digital slit lamp that is used to assess each patient’s eyes. It can be extremely useful as it takes pictures and videos of a patient’s eyes so that we can show as well as explain certain eye conditions. We are investing in the latest technology to offer the very best in eye care.

If you are looking for an optometrists and live within a radius of Hailsham, in East Sussex then please get in touch. Just give us a call on 01323 442062. We have highly experienced opticians, optometrists as well as Shahram Kashani, our ophthalmologist and also Peter Worthington our hearing specialist.

An Exciting Glimpse…

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We are very excited at Focus Eye Medical Centre! We are eagerly awaiting the first look of our new video, created by Mike Seager of Studio Seager.

Hours have been spent within our shop and surgery….lights, camera, action as they say! It’s been great fun seeing an original concept become reality, Muppets, voiceovers and lots of laughs!

We can’t wait to see how our video looks and are hoping that it will create something really special that ALL our customers will love. From tiny children right through to the older generation. We want to show how family friendly we are; how approachable; yet completely knowledgeable in our field!

Watch this space…

Essilor Transitions Lenses

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Over the years transition lenses have become dated and old fashioned. But not any more! Essilor have introduced a fabulous new range of glasses that transition much more effectively. Focus Eye Centre are stockists of Essilor Transitions Lenses and this useful style of spectacles are now growing in popularity once more.

Transitions Light intelligent lenses from Essilor automatically adapt to changing light conditions. Which will give you optimal visual comfort and style.

Additionally they help protect against harmful UV and Blue-Violet light indoors and outdoors. Whether you want conventional everyday lenses, driving specific lenses or a stylish fashion pair of lenses, there is a modern style for everyone.

Mirrored Transitions

There are 4 different mirrored colours in this range. When activated they are mirrored sunglasses, with just a light tint when unactivated. They reduce glare and protect your eyes from UVA, UVB and blue-violet light. Plus they look amazing!

Transitions Xtractive

These are ideal if your eyes are really sensitive. A stylish pair of glasses that will go extra dark when activated, even in the car. They enhance colour perception, yet have a subtle indoor tint that removes harshness of some indoor lighting. Again, they reduce glare and protect your eyes from UVA, UVB and blue-violet light.

Transitions Signature

This range is perfect if you are in and out of light all the time. They seemlessly transition from clear comfortable lenses to dark lenses with Essilor’s fast responsive technology. As with all Essilor Transitions, they reduce glare and protect your eyes from UVA, UVB and blue-violet light.

If Essilor Transitions Lenses are a design, style and quality of lens that you are interested in, then come into Focus Eye Centre and please enquire. This incredible range of spectacles/sunglasses are a brilliant alternative to having two pairs of glasses, plus they look absolutely great!

 

Our booking App

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Introducing our new booking App to allow patients quick, simple access to our team to help manage all your eye care needs.

Our mobile friendly app allows patients to:

  • Contact our team quickly and easily by phone, email or messaging.
  • Request appointments for when it suits you.
  • Re-order Contact Lenses hassle free
  • Follow the practice news and events via our Facebook page
  • Other information about our products and services
  • Offer information on common eye conditions
  • Clear instructions on how to insert, remove and look after your Contact Lenses
  • Magnifying Function in case caught without reading specs
  • Fun mini eye checks and try on functions

For more information about how to get the app and start using it visit our MySight App page.

 

I could not live without Optomap

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My husband, Anthony Bahadur, and I purchased Focus Eye Centre four years ago and one of the beauties of having our own practice is the freedom that we can choose what equipment we want to invest in.

We pride ourselves on creating and nurturing strong relationships with local ophthalmologists and when a patient with an ophthalmic emergency walks in the door, we strive to examine, diagnose and refer as efficiently as possible.

We both became accredited to run a Minor Eye Condition Service (MECS) clinic just over a year ago and pretty soon after decided to invest in an Optomap. And it has since proved to be invaluable.

Opto-benefits

The Optomap provides a panoramic digital image of 82% of the retina. It is fast, painless and comfortable for the patient and gives you so much more information than a standard fundus photograph, which only gives a view of 15% of the retina.

It has helped me to detect asymptomatic retinal holes and tears, retinal detachments, peripheral diabetic retinopathy and even damage to an eight-year-old’s eye from a firework.

Our Optomap is performed on all of our private patients and as an optional, additional test on NHS patients at a charge of £20 for adults and £15 for children.

Patients do not need to be dilated and the Optomap can be used on the practice shop floor without needing a different lighting level.

The Optomap can be performed by trained practice staff, who would usually take one colour photo and one with auto flourescence on each eye, which then become available to view in the test room immediately.

You can zoom in and out of the retina and look underneath at the choroid and view the blood vessels in high definition. You can also demonstrate the difference in the view of the retina given by the Optomap compared with the view obtained by standard imaging.

Although our MECS clinic is a free service provided by the NHS, all of our patients are happy to pay for an Optomap if we feel it is necessary. PVD’s are managed in practice more confidently, meaning less referrals and less disruption for both patients and ophthalmologists.

“Our local GPs now confidently refer any minor eye conditions to us knowing that we have the best equipment to help us diagnose and co-manage these patients, freeing up their valuable time”

Referral routines

When we detect retinal tears or retinal abnormalities, we are able to print off the Optomap and send it in to help the ophthalmologists pinpoint the area in question.

Furthermore, our local GPs now confidently refer any minor eye conditions to us knowing that we have the best equipment to help us diagnose and co-manage these patients, freeing up their valuable time.

Patient satisfaction

An example of the benefit that having an Optomap can provide can be found in the story of when I used it on an eight-year-old who got remnants of a firework in her eye. Her mum brought her in to me several days later because her vision was blurry and her eye felt sore. A quick Optomap revealed the damage to her retina, which I was able to show her mum. An urgent referral to the eye hospital and two operations later to patch with silicone and then remove the silicone, and her eye looked much better.

thank you message

Her vision in this eye is now 6/7.6 and her retina has healed well. She even brought me in this letter (pictured above) which made my day.

I would recommend an Optomap to everyone. I still dilate and use my Volk lens, but the Optomap helps me to record, diagnose and communicate retinal and general health issues more effectively to my patients and fellow health professionals.

This article was previously posted on the Association of Optometrists website, https://www.aop.org.uk/.

Our Social Media

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At Focus Eye Centre, we like to keep in touch with our customers. So as well as our brand new website, we are also working hard on creating a great social media presence. Most of our customers are on one platform or another, so we would love to see you come and say hi, perhaps check in with us, like us, follow us and maybe even tag us when you take a photograph wearing any of our products!

Social Media

Facebook

On our Facebook page, you will be able to see what we have been up to. We showcase our services, the events we will be holding as well as any offers there may currently be. We also love our newest video, and you will be able to see it here!

Instagram

A very visual platform as you know. So we like to add in product photos, shots in the store, of us working as well as anything else we like the look of. Come and follow us if you love using Instagram …

Twitter

Twitter is the newest way we are getting our business out there. We are very active within our area, so please come and say hi, hashtag us when you come in and tweet about the wonderful products we sell!

You Tube

YouTube is another new form of social media for us. But we just love our video, so we are hoping this will be the first of many! Watch this space…

Thanks for taking the time to have a look at what else we are doing. Being a local business we are keen to make sure everyone has heard of us, in one way or another. So choose which way you would like to interact with us and we look forward to showing you what we are able to help you with.

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