Adapting frames

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‘Normal’ glasses

A 25-year-old male came into our practice, selected a designer sunglass frame (Figure 1), and asked us if there was any way he could wear it. As a lifelong 13.00D myope who was intolerant to contact lens wear, he had never worn sunglasses in his life.

He further expressed a desire to wear ‘normal looking’ glasses, something he also felt he had never done since he was always fitted with cosmetically unsatisfying frames with small, round lenses that would result in heavy myopic ring-reflections. He wanted to wear ‘adult’ spectacles unlike the ‘kid’ glasses he was accustomed to wearing all his life.