“Light is everywhere, it carries us away with its whirlwind of intense colours, sparkles and reflections. But what if all these reflections were becoming a source of discomfort….” Said the voice-over on the new Crizal Sapphire launch video at Auckland’s Essilor platinum partners’ meeting. “It’s interesting to look at what’s changed in our environment and why more-than-ever we need multi-coat today,” followed Essilor’s Tim Thurn, introducing the company’s new anti-reflection coating.
Designed to reduce reflections from all angles on the front and back of the lens, Essilor’s new Crizal Sapphire coating has now been launched across Australasia in a dual promotion with its new Varilux-X series lens.
Every spectacle wearer knows how annoying reflections can be and with the world becoming brighter, with natural or artificial light, the more reflections there
are, explained Thurn adding Essilor’s research shows light reflection on glasses impacts a patient’s habits in ways they may not even realise. “I see people with great frames, but with no multi-coat on their glasses. It’s about half the population and they are going to have back and front surface reflections, they are going to have dispersion from dust and smudges, and ghosting and internal reflections, which is something else we don’t talk about as much as we should.”
About 80% of patients complain about reflections on their specs, he said, with about half moving their heads to avoid reflections and about a third who will just remove their glasses. “So, this really impacts our daily lives.”
