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specific needs – a 35D prismatic lens that lashes. The team had to make over a dozen
significantly decreased his visual discomfort calculations to design the lens power and
from double vision. geometry before they finally achieved the
required lens.
To illustrate the variety of Essilor’s
ground-breaking solutions it is worth noting These stories show the Special Lens Lab
the success achieved with Meg Zatorski, team’s advanced technological skills as well
who is afflicted with Stargardt disease, a as their extraordinary dedication and effort in
common form of inherited juvenile macular pursuit of Essilor’s ambition to improve lives
degeneration. Ms Zatorski spent a decade by improving sight, no matter how complex
trying to obtain the most powerful lenses to an individual’s vision needs might be.
enable her to regain the ability to read.
THE SPECIAL LENSES IN INDIA
Finally, it was estimated that a +70 Dioptre
would be the ideal lens she would need but to ECPs in India can look forward to
her dismay she was told that these lenses were accessing Essilor’s Special Lenses from
impossible. When the problem was presented very soon. Simultaneously, they can raise
to Essilor’s Special Lens team, they achieved awareness about these exceptional
a formidable technical feat of crafting a +70D solutions to meet individual customer
lens, the most powerful magnifying lens. requirements and needs, and their
availability in the country.
Before this, the most powerful magnifying
lens made by Essilor was a +52D. The team had Being able to provide a personalised
to strike a compromise with respect to its shape solution for any type of need is also a way to
and weight so that it could be fitted relatively strongly increase the ECP’s image as a health
easily into an eyeglass frame and remain at a care professional who is keenly aware of the
close distance from the globe of the eye and latest developments in the field.
ESSILOR’S SPECIAL LENS SERVICE
OFFERS AN EXCEPTIONAL PRE-
DEFINED RANGE OF LENSES; AND
AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE CREATING
CUSTOM-MADE SOLUTIONS
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