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Traditional lenses

Traditional lens designs have set the standard for most Progressive lenses available on the market today.

Nevertheless there has always been a compromise in optical performance, as “best form” lens shape could not be supplied for the individual patient’s prescription.

Why 360°?

All Varilux 360° products benefit from the ability to create the optimal lens with a customised "best form" back surface. Essilor’s Point-By-Point Prescription Mapping™ calculates a unique design tailored to the front-surface progression and the wearer’s prescription.

Digital surfacing provides greater flexibility and control for the production of the intended design on the back surface. However, even with digital surfacing, lens design remains the critical factor.

Varilux 360° series is built on Dual Digital Vision (DDV), a 3-step process taking into account the lens design, the digital surfacing calculation and the surfacing tools. The result: maximum visual performance whatever the prescription and frame choice.

Proven Design:

Any surfacing process is only as good as the lens it is being applied to – no PAL brand surpasses Varilux for proven performance and patient satisfaction. In fact, in a double blind clinical trial Varilux Physio non-digitally surfaced was preferred 4:1 over a competitor’s premium digitally surfaced PAL.¹

Essilor’s Point-By-Point Prescription Mapping™:

This patented calculation software analyses the lens design and calculates a customised and complementary back surface. The effectiveness of the original front surface design is enhanced for all prescriptions. Integrating the qualities of both lens surfaces is the key to maximising performance.

Patented Surfacing Tools:

Expert knowledge of progressive lenses and digital surfacing is critical to produce the customised back surfaces of Varilux 360° lenses. Essilor has developed a patented digital process that delivers pin-point accuracy unlike anything else on the market.

The benefits of the Varilux 360° Series

• Up to 30% wider fields of vision
• Unlike our competitors, Varilux 360° creates an optimal lens by customising the wearer’s prescription to the front-surface design – widening vision in every zone.
• When a distance prescription is ground on any semi-finished lens, the base curve makes only one “best-form” prescription. Each wearer’s prescription is different and will generate unique variations of peripheral aberration. A single traditional design will not compensate for each of these variations.
• Varilux 360° resolves this issue by creating a unique back surface design that widens the fields of vision.

Traditional Surfacing

The final product has deviated from the original design. Wearers will not enjoy the optimal visual experience

Varilux 360°

The lens design is preserved and optimised. Wearers can now enjoy the ultimate visual experience.

What does this mean to your patients?

Your patients will experience remarkable benefits:

• Visual freedom at near, far and everywhere in between
• Up to 30% wider fields of vision
• The ability to use more of the lens
• Crisper acuity right to the edge

The Varilux 360° Series lifts restrictions on the wearer’s vision that they may have experienced wearing reading or bifocal lenses.

With all Varilux 360° products the wearer’s field of vision is expanded and their progressive vision becomes more natural.

Varilux 360° Series provides up to 30% wider fields of vision.