All about Hard Coatings

By MH Optical Team | August 2, 2022
A machine that is making glasses of liquid.

Hard Coating is a scratch resistant coating applied to the lens that adds durability, longevity, and visual quality. This coating is necessary for some materials, and many lens blanks come with a hard coating on them already. An example is poly-carbonate lenses, which come with a coating on both sides as they are very easy to scratch. When surfacing the backside coating has to be removed, so we apply a new hard coating to the backside of the lens before completing an order. We apply a backside hard coating on every lens material from poly-carbonate to a 1.74. There are two options that we use in the lab, Spin Coating and Dip Coating

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Blue Light Lenses

By MH Optical Team | July 19, 2022
A pair of glasses sitting on top of a laptop.

Blue light eye protection is all the rage, so many products are claiming to protect wearers eyes from the harmful rays that could impact a person’s vision. Therefore it is important to understand blue light and what these lenses actually offer, so you can properly educate your patient and offer them some of our great UV options for both indoor and outdoor uses.

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All About Lens Tints

By MH Optical Team | July 5, 2022
A man with sunglasses on looking up at the sky

With all these bright and sun filled days that are spent outside, it makes everyone aware of the need for some shade. Since we cannot add sunscreen to our eyes, we have to rely on sunglasses to help. However, it is important to keep in mind that sunglasses and tinted lenses should be worn year round, anytime there is extended periods of outdoor exposure. Tints reduce the amount of light that hits the eye to protect them from harmful rays from the sun. There are many options when deciding which type of tints to offer your patients and this week we are taking a look at all of them!

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