Eye Glasses

Snead Eye Group offers a full-service Optical Department with a broad selection of eye glasses, sunglasses, contact lenses, and accessories.
Our highly trained staff will assist you in finding the perfect frames that not only fit your personality but your lifestyle as well.
The latest technology in lenses and a unique selection of frames ensure 100% satisfaction in your eyewear selection.
Stop by our optical department during regular office hours and have your eye glasses adjusted or cleaned by our staff at no charge. It’s our way of saying Welcome, we are here to serve you.

Designer Frames – Look Your Best – See Your Best

Each of our Snead Eye Group locations features exceptional, fashion-forward eyewear crafted by the best European and U.S. designers.
Our professional opticians are extensively trained to help you select a frame for your eye glasses that will both maximize your visual performance and fully complement your appearance.
We are here to be your eye care team for life! Below are just some of the most popular brand names that we carry!

Lens Materials for Your Eye Glasses

Selecting the right eyeglass lens depends largely on its function. From single-vision lenses to progressive polycarbonate lenses, we are happy to help you find what best suits your visual and lifestyle needs. At Snead Eye Group, we work with the best labs in the industry to produce your lenses with the latest state-of-the-art technology. Click on any of the tab titles below to see some of the lens materials we have to offer.

Plastic Cr-39 is the choice for the budget-conscious consumer. Despite the versatility of plastic lenses, they are NOT suitable for children because the material is not impact-resistant and tends to crack and scar. Other materials such as polycarbonate, trivex or high-index materials are preferred.

Benefits:

  • Good optics, lighter than glass
  • Available in many styles
  • Easy to tint

Polycarbonate Lenses are thinner and lighter than regular CR-39 plastic lenses. They also offer 100% protection from the sun’s harmful UV light and are up to 10 times more impact-resistant than plastic or glass lenses. Regular glass and plastic eyeglass lens materials can shatter upon violent contact in the same way that car safety glass does. This can cause serious injuries to your eyes and face.

Benefits:

  • 25% thinner than plastic
  • Impact-resistant
  • Absorbs 100% of UVA/UVB
  • Standard for drilled rimless frames

Trivex lens material is an advanced technology that brings an unprecedented combination of crisp, clear vision, ultra-lightweight comfort, unsurpassed strength and protection to patients. For reading, computer work, driving, and any time vision acuity is important, Trivex material provides the optical quality that optimizes corrective prescriptions and helps to reduce eye strain. Unlike other lens materials, Trivex material blends the benefits of lightness and thinness, often resembling the thinness of a high-index lens but weighing even less than polycarbonate. Lenses made with Trivex material are a great choice for anyone who leads an active life and expects clear, crisp vision correction, lightweight comfort and protection from their eyewear.

Benefits:

  • Clear, crisp, vision
  • Lightweight comfort
  • Strength and protection

High-index lenses are preferred for individuals with stronger prescriptions as their vision can be corrected with less material, allowing these lenses to be much thinner. Patients will enjoy thinner, more comfortable eyeglasses with high-index lenses. There are now a variety of new plastic lens materials that bend light more efficiently than the conventional plastic lenses used for eye glasses. So now, your same nearsighted prescription can be corrected with less material to correct the same amount of nearsightedness.

Benefits:

  • Thin and lightweight appearance, an excellent choice with many frame designs
  • Absorbs 100% UVA/UVB
  • Plus lenses are flatter to reduce the “bug-eye” effect
  • Many high-index lenses come systematic with a superior scratch-resistant AR coating

Glass lenses are still available today but due to the manufacturing cost, the weight of the lens and their chance of breakage, we do NOT recommend these types of lenses.

Lens Design Personalization

After learning about specific lens types, our lens technicians make sure to include design and function into the process. Some lens designs are tailored to be worn for eye protection such as preventing UV damage. While other prescription eye glasses help with vision correction, such as astigmatism. Here are some of the lens designs to meet various needs.

Single Vision Lenses

Single vision glasses are designed to help people who require correction of farsightedness, nearsightedness, or astigmatism. These prescription eye glasses have just a single optical prescription correction, and they distribute focus evenly over the entire surface area of the lens. Most people who wear prescription eye glasses usually get this type. If you have multiple prescriptions, you would require bifocal or multifocal eye glasses.

Progressive Lenses

Progressive lenses provide a smooth transition from distance correction to near correction, eliminating segment lines and allowing clear vision at all distances, including intermediate, near and far. Progressive lenses are also known as no-line bifocal lenses.

With these specialty lenses, the prescription at the top of the lens is different from that at the bottom of the lens. It differs from a bi-focal as there is a gradual shift in the prescription instead of a blunt line made in the lens.

The very top part of the lens works well for distance. The bottom portion gets progressively stronger ending with the strongest portion at the very bottom for reading. A progressive lens allows the wearer to view all ranges of vision from near to far. Additionally, the lenses look identical to single-vision lenses, with no lines, allowing others to only see your eyes!

Bifocal Lenses

The primary purpose of glasses bifocals is to provide the optimal balance between distance vision and near vision focusing needs. Eye glasses with bifocal lenses are available with the reading segments in a variety of shapes and widths including bifocal sunglass options.

Trifocal Lenses

Trifocal lenses are similar to bifocals, except that the two focal areas are separated by a third middle area with intermediate focus correction. This area is used for intermediate vision; roughly at arm’s length (i.e. computer distance.) This lens type has two segment lines, dividing the three different correcting segments.

Computer Lenses

Computer glasses are eye glasses specifically designed for viewing computers, tablets and smartphones. Computer eye glasses are intended for close-up tasks only. They should not be worn for driving or general purpose use.

Computer eye glasses relieve focusing stress from computer use that can cause digital eye strain. Some computer eye glasses also shield your eyes from blue light emitted by the screens of digital devices.

Lens Enhancements

Anti-Reflective Coating reduces eyestrain caused from glare, reflections, and increases your vision at night.

Benefits:

  • Allows your vision to be sharper and reduces reflections in your lenses
  • Reduces eyestrain and fatigue making your eyes more comfortable
  • Protects lenses against scratches and smudges
  • Helps repel dust and water

Blue Light Protection reduces eye fatigue to provide a strain-free visual experience, while providing the most complete protection from harmful blue light. Blue light is given off from any digital device.

Benefits:

  • Decreases digital eyestrain when looking at computer, TV, phone screens, etc.
  • Decreases symptoms of dry eyes, sticky eyes, and the feeling of grittiness or “sand” in the eye
  • Increases visual performances in situations of low contrast

Scratch Treatment helps prevent scratches from damaging your lenses.

Benefits:

  • Minimize everyday wear and tear to help protect your lenses
  • Extends the life of your eyeglasses

UV protection decreases your eyes’ exposure to harmful ultraviolet rays.

Benefits:

  • Adding the coating can block 98-100% of transmitted and reflected UVA and UVB rays
  • Decreases your chance of serious eye problems, such as cataracts and macular degeneration

Polarized lenses are specialized eyewear designed to reduce glare from surfaces such as water, snow, and glass. Glare distorts the true color of objects and makes them harder to distinguish. Polarized sunglasses can be useful for certain sports and driving, helping participants to see more clearly and avoid potential hazards.

Benefits:

  • Improves visual comfort
  • Improves contrast and visual clarity
  • Reduces eye strain
  • Allows for true perception of colors
  • Reduces reflections and eliminates glare

Transition lenses are photochromic lenses that are clear until dangerous ultraviolet radiation (UV) is present. Once outdoors, the brighter the sun, the darker the transition lenses become. They turn as dark as sunglasses by automatically reacting to the intensity of UV radiation.

Since transition lenses block 100% of the sun’s eye-damaging rays and help to reduce painful, discomforting glare, they protect your eyes on cloudy days, sunny days, and everything in between. Transitions lenses are the most convenient way for you to protect your eyes from the light you can see and the light you can’t. All while helping to improve the quality of your vision and the long-term health and well-being of your eyes. Transition lenses are to be thought os as a comfort sunglass lens and not a replacement for your polarized sunglass lens.

Benefits:

  • Cost-effective: It’s two pairs in one (clear and sun)
  • Convenient: You won’t have to switch between two pairs of eye glasses
  • Drawback: Photochromic lenses darken in reaction to UV rays, which your windshield blocks. Because of this, transitional lenses won’t darken very well in the car.

We Carry the Most Popular Brand Names

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Become Our Next Success Story

At Snead Eye Group, we’re dedicated to being your trusted eye care partner. Discover what REAL patients have to say about their experience with the Snead Eye Group and how we’ve made a difference in their lives.

I continue to be impressed by Snead Eye Group! My initial visit was an emergency and the staff scheduled me immediately. The second visit was a re-check, and it was quick and efficient. My third visit was an eye exam. The technician modified her exam to meet the needs of my sensitive eyes. This is a group of hardworking and caring individuals!

Cindy Syoen

This was the best experience I have ever had at an eye appointment! The staff is super caring and listens. The doctor was great and thorough. The selection of frames was great and the consultant, Heather, was knowledgeable and not pushy. I would highly recommend!

Crystal Hogan

From my first appointment, Snead Eye Group had a very pleasant office and was so professional! I was worried because my doctors were all from Connecticut, and they were all excellent. But I hit the jackpot with the Snead Eye Group. They are extremely knowledgeable and up to date on their education to be beyond current! They get 10 stars from my husband and myself!

Marianne Barnes

Office Locations & Hours

Snead Eye Group has many convenient locations across Southwest Florida. Our expertly equipped eye care and surgical centers proudly serve Fort Myers, Naples, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs, Marco Island and the surrounding areas. Discover your nearest clinic now.

Expertly Equipped

Our $1 million imaging system provides detection clarity, ensuring vision problems are identified and treated at the earliest stages.

Perfectly Precise

With the expertise of our eye doctors, we provide accurate, targeted treatment to preserve and enhance your vision.

Clearly Caring

It’s our mission to offer compassionate, personalized care. Your eye health is at the heart of everything we do.

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