PRESCRIPTION SUNGLASSES

All sunglasses filter UV light to some degree but levels of protection vary. For best protection, choose sunglasses with lenses that block UVA and UVB rays between 290 and 400nm.

UV protection can be added to prescription spectacles. Best4Glasses offers a protective coating at 400nm, which blocks between 99% and 100% of UV rays. If you work or play outdoor sports, you will benefit greatly from UV protection, whether wearing prescription spectacles or plain sunglasses.

If you need to wear glasses for everday use, you will also want to have your optical prescription incorporated into this eye protection. People working under fluorescent lights or at computer VDUs will also benefit from lenses with UV protection.

Many opticians offer these sort of lenses, which offer UV protection and include a fashionable tint to reduce the brightness of light entering the eyes. With Best4glasses you can choose from a range of tints in three shades; light, medium and dark. With UV protection added to these lenses, you can easily have a fashionable pair of presecription sunglasses.

Having a pair of prescription sunglasses is obviously useful for bright sunny days, to help protect your eyes, but this does mean that you need to have two pairs of eyewear with you.

One way to have the best of both worlds is to have a pair of prescription sunglasses, which will also operate like normal clear lenses in darker environments. There are several brand names and products associated with such glasses, such as; reactolite (or reactilite, reactalite), transistions, photochromic lens, photochromatics, polychromatic, polychromic.

At Best4glasses, these types of lenses are called 'photochromatic'. To add these to your glasses order, simply select the 'Photochromatic' option from the 'Extras' page when ordering. As well as changing from clear to dark when moving from dark to light conditions, these lenses also include UV protection FREE.

Photochromatic prescription lenses are available with all the frames displayed on our site including designer frames.