Sports Safety Frames

By MH Optical Team | August 16, 2022
A group of young girls playing soccer on the field.

Sports are extremely popular among children and adults. While they are a lot of fun, they do put players at risk of eye injuries, which many can be prevented. Basketball is the #1 sport for eye injuries, and other high risk sports are water sports, baseball/softball, and racquet sports. More athletes are wearing proper eye protection, and this is reducing the amount of sports related eye injuries.

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Introducing Milo & Me Children’s Frames

By MH Optical Team | August 11, 2022
Three young girls are smiling while laying on the ground.

Milo & Me offers strong, flexible and cool eyewear that are lightweight, flexible and resilient. Kids (and parents) can be sure that these frames can stand up to a kid’s “rough and tumble world.” Milo & Me offers a 2-year warranty against manufacturer’s defects.

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Eyezen Kids 

By MH Optical Team | August 9, 2022
A green background with the words " zezen, kickin ' it."

As kids are preparing to go back to school, we are offering some NEW great options for them! This week we will look at the new Eyezen Kids lenses, which are designed for children 6 to 12 years old.

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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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