Specially designed frame mirror, how to choose the frame?

Some parents followed the doctor's advice and decided to fit their children with specially designed frames to prevent the progression of myopia. However, when it comes to choosing frames, they may be in trouble. How to choose from a variety of frames? Is it enough to just pick the one that the child likes? In this article, Dr. Jingcai will talk to you about it. As usual, it is pure popular science, no deception, no selling, please feel free to read.

The size of the frame.

This item cannot be completely determined according to the wishes of parents and children. The choice of frame size needs to be based on the specific circumstances of the specially designed frame lenses to ensure that after the lenses are processed and cut according to the frame shape, the central optical area can accurately correspond to the pupil centers of the child's two eyes. At the same time, the functional areas around the lenses must be fully preserved. For example, the lens design of "New X-school" can choose a smaller frame size compared to "Star X-control". Therefore, for the size of the frame, you still have to listen to the professional opinions of doctors and optometrists;

The appearance and color of the frame.

This item can better respect the child's preferences. After all, only when the child thinks it looks good, he/she will be more willing to wear it every day.

The material of the frame.

Materials commonly used for eyeglass frames include plastic steel, TR polymers, plates, titanium, alloys, and so on. These materials differ in weight, durability, and toughness. For children using glasses to prevent and control myopia, the recommended priority performance indicator is weight. The lighter the frame, the better. After all, children need to wear them for more than 12 hours a day. Light frames can keep them comfortable and reduce problems such as slippage caused by excessive weight. Secondly, the toughness of the frame should be considered. For RT polymer and plate frames, the toughness should be better than that of metal frames and they should not be easily deformed.

Nose pads.

Choose the right nose pad style according to the height of your child's nose bridge to ensure that the frame can be securely fixed. For those with high nose bridges, you can choose an integrated nose pad style, and for those with low nose bridges, you can choose an independent nose pad style. The nose pads of some frames are not only independent, but also adjustable, which is to more flexibly adapt to the condition of the child's nose bridge. However, if the child is young, naughty and active, he may fiddle with the nose pads for no reason, which will lead to poor positioning and fixation of the frame, or even the nose pads being broken at any time.

Temple.

The ends of the temples of many children's eyeglass frames have a more obvious curvature so that they can hang on the ears and ensure that the frames will not slip off when the head is lowered; the length of the temples and the curvature of the ends should be appropriate, neither too long, causing the frames to be unfastened and shake, nor too tight, causing the ears to be pinched.

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