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Bringing Fashion to Reading Glasses

2015 eyewear fashion trends 7:00 AM
Nonprescription reading glasses can get a bad rap -- you've seen the turnstiles at the drug store featuring bland "unisex" frames in uninspiring silver metal or black.  But wearing over the counter reading glasses doesn't have to be a fashion sentence of doom.  Today we're interviewing Angie Stocklin, Co-Founder and COO of Readers.com. Several years ago I started following Angie on Pinterest and found her to...

Will Wearing Glasses Make Your Vision Worse?

glasses blog 9:06 PM
A question for the ages.  As an optometrist, I answer a lot of questions about vision and ocular health every day, but this particular question pops up more frequently than I would have suspected.  The simplest answer is this: if your glasses are the correct prescription, wearing them will in NO way hurt your vision. To be more thorough with this answer though, we...

The Patient's Guide to Refractive Error Part 4: Presbyopia

over the counter readers 9:28 PM
Remember those friends you had that never, ever had to wear glasses or contact lenses.  They were just blessed with perfect vision and never even entered the door of an optometrist's office growing up.  They went through life knowing how lucky they were and thinking how awful it was for those poor glasses wearing people.  Then a little thing called 40 happened. Believe...