March 19, 2024 • 11 mins
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 (00:03):
Welcome to the Jazzy Eyes podcast.
Taking care of your vision withexpert precision.
Here's your host, dr TweenNeuen.
Jeremy (00:15):
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 youagain.
Happy Monday to you, by the way.
Thuy Nguyen (00:27):
Happy Monday, get excited.
How was your weekend?
Jeremy (00:31):
It was actually great.
I was up in SeaWorld with mydaughter.
I met a friend of mine fromcollege with his daughter.
We had a daddy daughter weekend.
Thuy Nguyen (00:38):
It was a daddy's weekend.
It was a good weekend.
Jeremy (00:41):
It was short, short, sweet as they say, Great.
Thuy Nguyen (00:45):
How about yourself it was good, me and Dr Falco, we
had my bachelorette party.
Oh, fun, fun.
Jeremy (00:53):
Well, congratulations on the upcoming one.
Awesome Good stuff.
So I just speaking of Dr Falcowe just talked.
She just enlightened me as tothe progressive lens.
I was under the impression youhad your traditional lenses and
you had bifocals, but apparentlysome new technology out there
and it's this idea ofprogressive lensing.
(01:14):
So it's fascinating stuff.
But I know you were going totalk a little bit about just
your traditional lens.
Thuy Nguyen (01:19):
Yeah, yeah.
So, speaking of yourtraditional 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 nearsighted and you can see up close
, but you can't see far.
Single vision lens is correctfor the distance that you can't
see and, similarly, far sighted.
If you can see far and not upclose, then the single vision
(01:40):
lens corrects you for up close.
There are what people wouldthink of as the standard lens
until you hit the big 40.
But for me it's S, s, a, and sopeople can't see far away and
they're starting to lose theirup close vision.
Then now the single visiondoesn't work because you need
correction for both distance andso that you would be placed
(02:03):
into a progressive.
But other than that, if beforeyou become perspiopic, single
vision lenses still work good.
Jeremy (02:11):
I just have a thought.
When I was younger, before Igot my Lasik surgery, I needed
glasses for to see.
I couldn't see far away, but onyour side of it, so I would
wear.
When you wear contacts and it'sonly for one, only to correct,
let's say, the fact that youcan't see far how is it that
you're still able to see closeup even with those lenses?
Or vice versa, for if you getcontacts for near sightedness,
(02:33):
you could still see far.
How?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
does that work?
Because I know.
Jeremy (02:36):
I'm sorry, I'm so interested here.
No, I know.
When you have like readingglasses, yeah, if you put those
on, you can't see far likeyou're on the air.
Why is it that contacts?
How does that work?
I'm like scrambled and tryingto process all this.
Thuy Nguyen (02:50):
So let's say, after you get late six, they correct
you for one distance.
And let's say you get late sixbefore the age of 40, where you
haven't lost your near visionyet, you can be.
You can get the late six andnow 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 40kind of needs some help up close
.
And so after the late six, yeah, you can see distance, far away
(03:12):
five.
But now you're starting to needreading glasses, even after
you've gotten late six, to seeup close.
That's why I tell people, ifthey're going to get late six,
to do it before they hit 40,around 30 or so.
That would be the perfect timefor late six.
And with the reading vision andeverything when you wear
reading glasses it changes yourpoints of focus.
So it brings your points offocus up close, meaning
(03:34):
everywhere outside of your pointof focus will be blurry.
So the reading glasses versussingle vision, distance glasses
or whatnot, what not justchanges your points of focus.
Jeremy (03:45):
So you could wear glasses for distance and read
well with read Okay With those,but not vice versa.
So the changes.
Thuy Nguyen (03:54):
Yes, you can wear the distance glasses and see far
away in them, and up closebefore your presbyopic, before
you hit 40 and Stop reminding methat I'm over 40.
It's the concept it reallydepends on pressing Monday Dr
Newer, Come on.
No way to start off.
Jeremy (04:12):
I'm not.
I'm almost knocking on 50 now,gee.
Thuy Nguyen (04:16):
Well, you look great.
Jeremy (04:19):
It's the moisturizer.
I don't know what could I say.
Thuy Nguyen (04:23):
Yeah, that's the concept of the single vision
lenses you know.
It corrects you for onedistance and it's considered the
standard lens.
And so there are upgrades thatyou can do to the standard lens,
that you can also do to aprogressive call of coatings and
you can put certain coatings onthe single vision lenses to
make your life easier, Like,let's say, anti-reflective
coating, where if I have ananti-reflective coating, all of
(04:48):
the reflections from the ambientline and everything it can get
transmitted through the lensesand 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 likescratch resistant lenses, which
is what they sound.
They they're not scratch proofby any means.
If you drop your glasses, youstep on them, they're going to
(05:09):
scratch, but it's harder forthem to scratch.
There are UV protection coatingwhich when you go outside, it
kind of blocks the harmful UVrays and decreases brisk or
certain diseases like cataractsor macular degeneration.
There are you probably haveheard of blue blocking coating
which blocks a lot of the bluelights coming out from digital
(05:33):
devices, which could improve,like eye strain and better
quality of sleep.
There are another thingtransition lenses, and that's a
coating as well, that they'reclear when you're inside, but
when you walk outside they turndark like sunglasses, and so
there's a lot of coatings thatyou can use to help upgrade your
(05:55):
lenses.
Jeremy (05:57):
Interesting.
Yeah, a question for you.
And I recently saw a black orfalco and she said I'm good, I
don't really need to getanything right now.
But I am noticing again from areading perspective when I get a
little bit close, things get alittle blurry, I get a little
queasy.
Now is that something that willultimately get worse, Not just
(06:20):
because of age but because ofthe blurriness that I'm seeing?
Is it progressing?
Because I'm trying to explainthis, I don't know.
Is it going to get worse byconsistently having to see I'm
having a hard time articulate.
I'm trying to say help me outhere.
(06:41):
So like I don't I don't want itlike.
I'm resisting, I'm holding out.
I don't want to get the Getworse by waiting.
Or is that something that Ijust need to monitor every month
?
Thuy Nguyen (06:50):
A month every year?
Jeremy (06:51):
I don't know.
Thuy Nguyen (06:52):
It gets worse on your on its own, whether you
correct it or not.
It's just a natural part ofbeing more experienced with life
.
And so when you're wearingglasses, um, it reduces the ice
rate.
So let's say you're not wearingthe glasses, it naturally gets
worse on its own and theblurriness that you're you're
already experiencing doesn'tmake doesn't make it worse in
(07:14):
the future.
There's a short term effectthat you're going to have even
more ice strain, but long termeffects you already seeing
blurry up close, uncorrected, isnot going to make it blurry in
the future.
Because you're seeing blurrynow, like you just naturally see
, your reading prescription getshigher and higher and higher
every single year and so, yeah,same thing with like squinting,
(07:36):
if you can't see far.
Jeremy (07:38):
Squinting is not going to make it worse, it's just it's
going to progressively getworse, just due to time and
everything.
Thuy Nguyen (07:42):
Correct yeah.
Jeremy (07:43):
Okay.
Thuy Nguyen (07:44):
And so the reason why you're seeing blurry up
close is just it's an anatomicallike change in the lens of your
eyes.
When you get there's a lens inour eyes that's meant to be
flexible, so it can.
It can either stretch or it caneither compress, depending on
the distance that you're seeing.
You're trying to see like acamera lens and you know it,
over time it gets stiffer and itgets it's not as flexible and
(08:08):
so you're not able to focus atdifferent distance like you used
to, just because it's ananatomical change.
And the read the way that weovercome that change is that we
give you readers which actuallymake the letters bigger and
bring it closer, in lieu of youreyes trying to accommodate
because it can't anymore.
So the lenses just help you dothings that you're not able to
(08:30):
do before.
Jeremy (08:32):
Interesting, I think.
I think I'm going to go go allin and get a pair of spectacles.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
The old school.
Thuy Nguyen (08:38):
I think I would look rather distinguished.
Jeremy (08:40):
Yeah, nice pair of spectacles for reading.
Thuy Nguyen (08:42):
Oh goodness.
Jeremy (08:47):
So at anything else you wanted to add, as it pertains to
your traditional lenses.
Thuy Nguyen (08:54):
So another upgrade that we can do to the single
vision lens that's not quite aprogressive is we can make the
single vision lens a babyprogressive, which basically
means and Dr Falco talked aboutprogressive the baby progressive
I usually give to eitherchildren with headaches up close
or our younger adults and it'slike at the very bottom, instead
(09:18):
of the progressive having ahuge magnification at the bottom
, the baby progressive has asmaller jump at the bottom.
So these are for people who canstill focus and accommodate,
but they just need a little bitof extra help, like a small
magnification at the bottom whenthey bring, when they're
reading and it it.
I say that it makes the lettersa little bit bigger, but just
(09:40):
buy a little bit so that youreyes don't have to do the work,
and so the lenses kind of makeit bigger and helps your eyes
relax as a whole, and so it'sconsidered a single vision lens.
It's just a little bit upgradedbut it's not quite a progressive
gradual, gradual it is, andit's actually a very good tool
for people who are about to bein progressive and I know that
(10:03):
they're going to have a hardtime adjusting to the
progressive, so I'm going to putthem in a baby progressive
before we make that jump to aprogressive.
Jeremy (10:09):
That makes sense.
Thuy Nguyen (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's a very useful ease into it.
Yeah, and like certaincompanies call it by different
names, like the baby, I call itbaby progressive.
But their names, like S O Laura, which is the company makes
them, and they're called eyesand lenses, or the company Hoya
makes it and they're called synclenses, but I call them baby
progressives.
Jeremy (10:29):
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 youagain.
Thuy Nguyen (10:44):
Informative.
I hope Absolutely.
Jeremy (10:47):
And to our listeners.
Hope you learned somethinguseful.
Thanks for tuning in and wewill catch you all next time.
Everyone take care.
Have a wonderful day, Bye.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Thank you for listening to the jazzy eyes
podcast.
For more information, visitjazzy eyescom or contact 954 473
0100.
Welcome to the Jazzy Eyes podcast.
Taking care of your vision withexpert precision.
Here's your host, dr TweenNeuen.
Jeremy (00:15):
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 youagain.
Happy Monday to you, by the way.
Thuy Nguyen (00:27):
Happy Monday, get excited.
How was your weekend?
Jeremy (00:31):
It was actually great.
I was up in SeaWorld with mydaughter.
I met a friend of mine fromcollege with his daughter.
We had a daddy daughter weekend.
Thuy Nguyen (00:38):
It was a daddy's weekend.
It was a good weekend.
Jeremy (00:41):
It was short, short, sweet as they say, Great.
Thuy Nguyen (00:45):
How about yourself it was good, me and Dr Falco, we
had my bachelorette party.
Oh, fun, fun.
Jeremy (00:53):
Well, congratulations on the upcoming one.
Awesome Good stuff.
So I just speaking of Dr Falcowe just talked.
She just enlightened me as tothe progressive lens.
I was under the impression youhad your traditional lenses and
you had bifocals, but apparentlysome new technology out there
and it's this idea ofprogressive lensing.
(01:14):
So it's fascinating stuff.
But I know you were going totalk a little bit about just
your traditional lens.
Thuy Nguyen (01:19):
Yeah, yeah.
So, speaking of yourtraditional 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 nearsighted and you can see up close
, but you can't see far.
Single vision lens is correctfor the distance that you can't
see and, similarly, far sighted.
If you can see far and not upclose, then the single vision
(01:40):
lens corrects you for up close.
There are what people wouldthink of as the standard lens
until you hit the big 40.
But for me it's S, s, a, and sopeople can't see far away and
they're starting to lose theirup close vision.
Then now the single visiondoesn't work because you need
correction for both distance andso that you would be placed
(02:03):
into a progressive.
But other than that, if beforeyou become perspiopic, single
vision lenses still work good.
Jeremy (02:11):
I just have a thought.
When I was younger, before Igot my Lasik surgery, I needed
glasses for to see.
I couldn't see far away, but onyour side of it, so I would
wear.
When you wear contacts and it'sonly for one, only to correct,
let's say, the fact that youcan't see far how is it that
you're still able to see closeup even with those lenses?
Or vice versa, for if you getcontacts for near sightedness,
(02:33):
you could still see far.
How?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
does that work?
Because I know.
Jeremy (02:36):
I'm sorry, I'm so interested here.
No, I know.
When you have like readingglasses, yeah, if you put those
on, you can't see far likeyou're on the air.
Why is it that contacts?
How does that work?
I'm like scrambled and tryingto process all this.
Thuy Nguyen (02:50):
So let's say, after you get late six, they correct
you for one distance.
And let's say you get late sixbefore the age of 40, where you
haven't lost your near visionyet, you can be.
You can get the late six andnow 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 40kind of needs some help up close
.
And so after the late six, yeah, you can see distance, far away
(03:12):
five.
But now you're starting to needreading glasses, even after
you've gotten late six, to seeup close.
That's why I tell people, ifthey're going to get late six,
to do it before they hit 40,around 30 or so.
That would be the perfect timefor late six.
And with the reading vision andeverything when you wear
reading glasses it changes yourpoints of focus.
So it brings your points offocus up close, meaning
(03:34):
everywhere outside of your pointof focus will be blurry.
So the reading glasses versussingle vision, distance glasses
or whatnot, what not justchanges your points of focus.
Jeremy (03:45):
So you could wear glasses for distance and read
well with read Okay With those,but not vice versa.
So the changes.
Thuy Nguyen (03:54):
Yes, you can wear the distance glasses and see far
away in them, and up closebefore your presbyopic, before
you hit 40 and Stop reminding methat I'm over 40.
It's the concept it reallydepends on pressing Monday Dr
Newer, Come on.
No way to start off.
Jeremy (04:12):
I'm not.
I'm almost knocking on 50 now,gee.
Thuy Nguyen (04:16):
Well, you look great.
Jeremy (04:19):
It's the moisturizer.
I don't know what could I say.
Thuy Nguyen (04:23):
Yeah, that's the concept of the single vision
lenses you know.
It corrects you for onedistance and it's considered the
standard lens.
And so there are upgrades thatyou can do to the standard lens,
that you can also do to aprogressive call of coatings and
you can put certain coatings onthe single vision lenses to
make your life easier, Like,let's say, anti-reflective
coating, where if I have ananti-reflective coating, all of
(04:48):
the reflections from the ambientline and everything it can get
transmitted through the lensesand 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 likescratch resistant lenses, which
is what they sound.
They they're not scratch proofby any means.
If you drop your glasses, youstep on them, they're going to
(05:09):
scratch, but it's harder forthem to scratch.
There are UV protection coatingwhich when you go outside, it
kind of blocks the harmful UVrays and decreases brisk or
certain diseases like cataractsor macular degeneration.
There are you probably haveheard of blue blocking coating
which blocks a lot of the bluelights coming out from digital
(05:33):
devices, which could improve,like eye strain and better
quality of sleep.
There are another thingtransition lenses, and that's a
coating as well, that they'reclear when you're inside, but
when you walk outside they turndark like sunglasses, and so
there's a lot of coatings thatyou can use to help upgrade your
(05:55):
lenses.
Jeremy (05:57):
Interesting.
Yeah, a question for you.
And I recently saw a black orfalco and she said I'm good, I
don't really need to getanything right now.
But I am noticing again from areading perspective when I get a
little bit close, things get alittle blurry, I get a little
queasy.
Now is that something that willultimately get worse, Not just
(06:20):
because of age but because ofthe blurriness that I'm seeing?
Is it progressing?
Because I'm trying to explainthis, I don't know.
Is it going to get worse byconsistently having to see I'm
having a hard time articulate.
I'm trying to say help me outhere.
(06:41):
So like I don't I don't want itlike.
I'm resisting, I'm holding out.
I don't want to get the Getworse by waiting.
Or is that something that Ijust need to monitor every month
?
Thuy Nguyen (06:50):
A month every year?
Jeremy (06:51):
I don't know.
Thuy Nguyen (06:52):
It gets worse on your on its own, whether you
correct it or not.
It's just a natural part ofbeing more experienced with life
.
And so when you're wearingglasses, um, it reduces the ice
rate.
So let's say you're not wearingthe glasses, it naturally gets
worse on its own and theblurriness that you're you're
already experiencing doesn'tmake doesn't make it worse in
(07:14):
the future.
There's a short term effectthat you're going to have even
more ice strain, but long termeffects you already seeing
blurry up close, uncorrected, isnot going to make it blurry in
the future.
Because you're seeing blurrynow, like you just naturally see
, your reading prescription getshigher and higher and higher
every single year and so, yeah,same thing with like squinting,
(07:36):
if you can't see far.
Jeremy (07:38):
Squinting is not going to make it worse, it's just it's
going to progressively getworse, just due to time and
everything.
Thuy Nguyen (07:42):
Correct yeah.
Jeremy (07:43):
Okay.
Thuy Nguyen (07:44):
And so the reason why you're seeing blurry up
close is just it's an anatomicallike change in the lens of your
eyes.
When you get there's a lens inour eyes that's meant to be
flexible, so it can.
It can either stretch or it caneither compress, depending on
the distance that you're seeing.
You're trying to see like acamera lens and you know it,
over time it gets stiffer and itgets it's not as flexible and
(08:08):
so you're not able to focus atdifferent distance like you used
to, just because it's ananatomical change.
And the read the way that weovercome that change is that we
give you readers which actuallymake the letters bigger and
bring it closer, in lieu of youreyes trying to accommodate
because it can't anymore.
So the lenses just help you dothings that you're not able to
(08:30):
do before.
Jeremy (08:32):
Interesting, I think.
I think I'm going to go go allin and get a pair of spectacles.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
The old school.
Thuy Nguyen (08:38):
I think I would look rather distinguished.
Jeremy (08:40):
Yeah, nice pair of spectacles for reading.
Thuy Nguyen (08:42):
Oh goodness.
Jeremy (08:47):
So at anything else you wanted to add, as it pertains to
your traditional lenses.
Thuy Nguyen (08:54):
So another upgrade that we can do to the single
vision lens that's not quite aprogressive is we can make the
single vision lens a babyprogressive, which basically
means and Dr Falco talked aboutprogressive the baby progressive
I usually give to eitherchildren with headaches up close
or our younger adults and it'slike at the very bottom, instead
(09:18):
of the progressive having ahuge magnification at the bottom
, the baby progressive has asmaller jump at the bottom.
So these are for people who canstill focus and accommodate,
but they just need a little bitof extra help, like a small
magnification at the bottom whenthey bring, when they're
reading and it it.
I say that it makes the lettersa little bit bigger, but just
(09:40):
buy a little bit so that youreyes don't have to do the work,
and so the lenses kind of makeit bigger and helps your eyes
relax as a whole, and so it'sconsidered a single vision lens.
It's just a little bit upgradedbut it's not quite a progressive
gradual, gradual it is, andit's actually a very good tool
for people who are about to bein progressive and I know that
(10:03):
they're going to have a hardtime adjusting to the
progressive, so I'm going to putthem in a baby progressive
before we make that jump to aprogressive.
Jeremy (10:09):
That makes sense.
Thuy Nguyen (10:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's a very useful ease into it.
Yeah, and like certaincompanies call it by different
names, like the baby, I call itbaby progressive.
But their names, like S O Laura, which is the company makes
them, and they're called eyesand lenses, or the company Hoya
makes it and they're called synclenses, but I call them baby
progressives.
Jeremy (10:29):
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 youagain.
Thuy Nguyen (10:44):
Informative.
I hope Absolutely.
Jeremy (10:47):
And to our listeners.
Hope you learned somethinguseful.
Thanks for tuning in and wewill catch you all next time.
Everyone take care.
Have a wonderful day, Bye.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Thank you for listening to the jazzy eyes
podcast.
For more information, visitjazzy eyescom or contact 954 473
0100.
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