The UK spectacle lens market has changed significantly over the last few years, as Pat and Phil Gilbert discovered when compiling an updated version of Ophthalmic Lenses Availability, the guide to spectacle lenses, coatings and tints available in the UK
Changes
So why did it take so long and what has been learned about the products we have to choose from currently in relation to those on offer only three to four years ago? Phil Gilbert explains: 'Firstly and probably most importantly we have seen an overall increase in lens entries within the publication of over 38 per cent. In 2009 there were 957 individual lens entries in comparison to 1,326 for 2012, the vast majority of these representing the manufacturing swing away from semi-finished progressive lens production in favour of freeform production.
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