Step into the captivating realm of optometry with our latest podcast episode, where we delve into the intricacies of vision correction. Led by Dr. Nguyen's expertise, we explore the fundamental principles of single vision lenses and unravel the mysteries of progressive technology.
As our conversation unfolds, I, Jeremy Wolf, share my own LASIK surgery experience, sparking a fascinating discussion on the functionality of contact lenses at different distances. Whether you're contemplating LASIK, curious about reading glasses, or simply intrigued by the science behind single vision lenses, our dialogue serves as an illuminating journey into the world of vision.
Join us on this episode of Jazzy Eyes, where vision transcends mere sight and becomes a profound exploration of understanding.
Step into the captivating realm of optometry with our latest podcast episode, where we delve into the intricacies of vision correction. Led by Dr. Nguyen's expertise, we explore the fundamental principles of single vision lenses and unravel the mysteries of progressive technology.
As our conversation unfolds, I, Jeremy Wolf, share my own LASIK surgery experience, sparking a fascinating discussion on the functionality of contact lenses at different distances. Whether you're contemplating LASIK, curious about reading glasses, or simply intrigued by the science behind single vision lenses, our dialogue serves as an illuminating journey into the world of vision.
Join us on this episode of Jazzy Eyes, where vision transcends mere sight and becomes a profound exploration of understanding.
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Speaker 1:
Welcome to the Jazzy Eyes podcast. Taking care of your vision with expert precision. Here's your host, dr Tween Neuen.
Jeremy:
Hello, hello everyone, and welcome back to the Jazzy Eyes podcast. I'm your co-host, jeremy Wolfe, joined by Dr Neuen. Dr Neuen, so good to see you again. Happy Monday to you, by the way.
Thuy Nguyen:
Happy Monday, get excited. How was your weekend?
Jeremy:
It was actually great. I was up in SeaWorld with my daughter. I met a friend of mine from college with his daughter. We had a daddy daughter weekend.
Thuy Nguyen:
It was a daddy's weekend. It was a good weekend.
Jeremy:
It was short, short, sweet as they say, Great.
Thuy Nguyen:
How about yourself it was good, me and Dr Falco, we had my bachelorette party. Oh, fun, fun.
Jeremy:
Well, congratulations on the upcoming one. Awesome Good stuff. So I just speaking of Dr Falco we just talked. She just enlightened me as to the progressive lens. I was under the impression you had your traditional lenses and you had bifocals, but apparently some new technology out there and it's this idea of progressive lensing. So it's fascinating stuff. But I know you were going to talk a little bit about just your traditional lens.
Thuy Nguyen:
Yeah, yeah. So, speaking of your traditional lens, they're called like single vision lenses and, like they sound, they correct your vision to a single vision. Like, let's say, you're near sighted and you can see up close, but you can't see far. Single vision lens is correct for the distance that you can't see and, similarly, far sighted. If you can see far and not up close, then the single vision lens corrects you for up close. There are what people would think of as the standard lens until you hit the big 40. But for me it's S, s, a, and so people can't see far away and they're starting to lose their up close vision. Then now the single vision doesn't work because you need correction for both distance and so that you would be placed into a progressive. But other than that, if before you become perspiopic, single vision lenses still work good.
Jeremy:
I just have a thought. When I was younger, before I got my Lasik surgery, I needed glasses for to see. I couldn't see far away, but on your side of it, so I would wear. When you wear contacts and it's only for one, only to correct, let's say, the fact that you can't see far how is it that you're still able to see close up even with those lenses? Or vice versa, for if you get contacts for near sightedness, you could still see far. How?
Speaker 1:
does that work? Because I know.
Jeremy:
I'm sorry, I'm so interested here. No, I know. When you have like reading glasses, yeah, if you put those on, you can't see far like you're on the air. Why is it that contacts? How does that work? I'm like scrambled and trying to process all this.
Thuy Nguyen:
So let's say, after you get late six, they correct you for one distance. And let's say you get late six before the age of 40, where you haven't lost your near vision yet, you can be. You can get the late six and now you can see far and up close. But once you hit 40, around 40, and you've gotten late six for the distance, everyone after 40 kind of needs some help up close. And so after the late six, yeah, you can see distance, far away five. But now you're starting to need reading glasses, even after you've gotten late six, to see up close. That's why I tell people, if they're going to get late six, to do it before they hit 40, around 30 or so. That would be the perfect time for late six. And with the reading vision and everything when you wear reading glasses it changes your points of focus. So it brings your points of focus up close, meaning everywhere outside of your point of focus will be blurry. So the reading glasses versus single vision, distance glasses or whatnot, what not just changes your points of focus.
Jeremy:
So you could wear glasses for distance and read well with read Okay With those, but not vice versa. So the changes.
Thuy Nguyen:
Yes, you can wear the distance glasses and see far away in them, and up close before your presbyopic, before you hit 40 and Stop reminding me that I'm over 40. It's the concept it really depends on pressing Monday Dr Newer, Come on. No way to start off.
Jeremy:
I'm not. I'm almost knocking on 50 now, gee.
Thuy Nguyen:
Well, you look great.
Jeremy:
It's the moisturizer. I don't know what could I say.
Thuy Nguyen:
Yeah, that's the concept of the single vision lenses you know. It corrects you for one distance and it's considered the standard lens. And so there are upgrades that you can do to the standard lens, that you can also do to a progressive call of coatings and you can put certain coatings on the single vision lenses to make your life easier, Like, let's say, anti-reflective coating, where if I have an anti-reflective coating, all of the reflections from the ambient line and everything it can get transmitted through the lenses and it doesn't cast like a glare when you're looking at someone, so you can actually see their eyes through the lens. There are like there's like scratch resistant lenses, which is what they sound. They they're not scratch proof by any means. If you drop your glasses, you step on them, they're going to scratch, but it's harder for them to scratch.
Thuy Nguyen:
There are UV protection coating which when you go outside, it kind of blocks the harmful UV rays and decreases brisk or certain diseases like cataracts or macular degeneration. There are you probably have heard of blue blocking coating which blocks a lot of the blue lights coming out from digital devices, which could improve, like eye strain and better quality of sleep. There are another thing transition lenses, and that's a coating as well, that they're clear when you're inside, but when you walk outside they turn dark like sunglasses, and so there's a lot of coatings that you can use to help upgrade your lenses.
Jeremy:
Interesting. Yeah, a question for you. And I recently saw a black or falco and she said I'm good, I don't really need to get anything right now. But I am noticing again from a reading perspective when I get a little bit close, things get a little blurry, I get a little queasy. Now is that something that will ultimately get worse, Not just because of age but because of the blurriness that I'm seeing? Is it progressing? Because I'm trying to explain this, I don't know. Is it going to get worse by consistently having to see I'm having a hard time articulate.
Jeremy:
I'm trying to say help me out here. So like I don't I don't want it like. I'm resisting, I'm holding out. I don't want to get the Get worse by waiting. Or is that something that I just need to monitor every month?
Thuy Nguyen:
A month every year?
Jeremy:
I don't know.
Thuy Nguyen:
It gets worse on your on its own, whether you correct it or not. It's just a natural part of being more experienced with life. And so when you're wearing glasses, um, it reduces the ice rate. So let's say you're not wearing the glasses, it naturally gets worse on its own and the blurriness that you're you're already experiencing doesn't make doesn't make it worse in the future. There's a short term effect that you're going to have even more ice strain, but long term effects you already seeing blurry up close, uncorrected, is not going to make it blurry in the future. Because you're seeing blurry now, like you just naturally see, your reading prescription gets higher and higher and higher every single year and so, yeah, same thing with like squinting, if you can't see far.
Jeremy:
Squinting is not going to make it worse, it's just it's going to progressively get worse, just due to time and everything.
Thuy Nguyen:
Correct yeah.
Jeremy:
Okay.
Thuy Nguyen:
And so the reason why you're seeing blurry up close is just it's an anatomical like change in the lens of your eyes. When you get there's a lens in our eyes that's meant to be flexible, so it can. It can either stretch or it can either compress, depending on the distance that you're seeing. You're trying to see like a camera lens and you know it, over time it gets stiffer and it gets it's not as flexible and so you're not able to focus at different distance like you used to, just because it's an anatomical change. And the read the way that we overcome that change is that we give you readers which actually make the letters bigger and bring it closer, in lieu of your eyes trying to accommodate because it can't anymore. So the lenses just help you do things that you're not able to do before.
Jeremy:
Interesting, I think. I think I'm going to go go all in and get a pair of spectacles.
Speaker 1:
The old school.
Thuy Nguyen:
I think I would look rather distinguished.
Jeremy:
Yeah, nice pair of spectacles for reading.
Thuy Nguyen:
Oh goodness.
Jeremy:
So at anything else you wanted to add, as it pertains to your traditional lenses.
Thuy Nguyen:
So another upgrade that we can do to the single vision lens that's not quite a progressive is we can make the single vision lens a baby progressive, which basically means and Dr Falco talked about progressive the baby progressive I usually give to either children with headaches up close or our younger adults and it's like at the very bottom, instead of the progressive having a huge magnification at the bottom, the baby progressive has a smaller jump at the bottom. So these are for people who can still focus and accommodate, but they just need a little bit of extra help, like a small magnification at the bottom when they bring, when they're reading and it it. I say that it makes the letters a little bit bigger, but just buy a little bit so that your eyes don't have to do the work, and so the lenses kind of make it bigger and helps your eyes relax as a whole, and so it's considered a single vision lens.
Thuy Nguyen:
It's just a little bit upgraded but it's not quite a progressive gradual, gradual it is, and it's actually a very good tool for people who are about to be in progressive and I know that they're going to have a hard time adjusting to the progressive, so I'm going to put them in a baby progressive before we make that jump to a progressive.
Jeremy:
That makes sense.
Thuy Nguyen:
Yeah, yeah, it's a very useful ease into it. Yeah, and like certain companies call it by different names, like the baby, I call it baby progressive. But their names, like S O Laura, which is the company makes them, and they're called eyes and lenses, or the company Hoya makes it and they're called sync lenses, but I call them baby progressives.
Jeremy:
Oh, so, baby, progressive is not the medical nature for this. Okay, I like it. It's cute, it's cute. Good deal, all right. Well, very, very good. It was pleasure speaking to you again.
Thuy Nguyen:
Informative. I hope Absolutely.
Jeremy:
And to our listeners. Hope you learned something useful. Thanks for tuning in and we will catch you all next time. Everyone take care. Have a wonderful day, Bye.
Speaker 1:
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