Anti-reflective coating (also called AR coating or anti-glare coating) improves both your vision through your lenses and the appearance of your glasses.

Both benefits are due to the ability of an AR coating to eliminate reflections of light from the front and back surface of your lenses. With fewer reflections, more light passes through the lens to the eye for good vision and the lenses look more transparent and attractive.

AR coating is especially beneficial when used on high-index (high prescription) lenses, which reflect more light than regular lenses. Today’s modern anti-reflective coatings can virtually eliminate the reflection of light from lenses, allowing 99.5 percent of available light to pass through the lenses and enter the eye for good vision.

Anti-reflective coating reduces glare and halos around lights at night and eliminates unattractive reflections on your lenses.

By eliminating reflections, AR coating also makes your lenses look nearly invisible so people can see your eyes and facial expressions more clearly.

The visual benefits of lenses with anti-reflective coating include:

• sharper vision with less glare when driving at night.
• Greater comfort during prolonged computer use (compared with wearing glass lenses without AR coating).
• Anti-reflective coating also is a good idea for sunglasses, because it eliminates glare from sunlight reflecting into your eyes from the back surface of tinted lenses when the sun is behind you.
• Anti glare night driving lenses can help increase visibility and reaction time. If you wear glasses, ask your eye care professional about Anti-Reflection lenses.

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