OPTICAL - Glasses and Contact Lenses

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Berks Eye Physicians and Surgeons

One stop service and selection

In today´s busy, mobile society, it makes sense to have one location for all of your ophthalmic needs - Berks Eye for your exams, and Berks Eye for all your optical needs.

Here you will be served by American Board Certified opticians who are specially trained to assist you with all types of lens prescriptions. The opticians staffing our office represent over 140 years combined of optical experience.

Berks Eye has its own fully computerized laboratory. The combination of our state of the art equipment and lab technicians with over 60 years combined experience assure you of the highest quality workmanship in eyewear.

A wide variety of frames to suit any age or face

These days everyone can look good in spectacles. With modern designs in frames and lenses, eyewear can enhance your appearance as well as help you see better. Our Certified dispensing staff is trained to give you expert advice on frames that best suit your face shape and hair color as well as your prescription.

Our optical department stocks the finest frames from many manufacturers. With hundreds of frames in stock - from rimless to bold and funky plastics - we´re bound to have a style to suit you. Choose from a large selection of modern and traditional frames, including designers such as Gucci, Jessica McClintock, Saks Fifth Avenue, Adidas, and Nike.

Contact Lenses

As an alternative to glasses and refractive surgery, contact lenses are a popular method of optically correcting myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism, and presbyopia (need for bifocals). Following a comprehensive eye exam at our practice, one of our optometrists will review your options and determine if you are a candidate for contact lenses. After the doctor selects the type and brand of contact lens that is acceptable, our certified contact lens technician will carefully demonstrate insertion and removal techniques. Our technicians also will educate you on the proper and safe methods to clean, store, disinfect and care for your contact lenses.

Contact lens technology is constantly evolving. Newer soft and hard gas permeable contact lenses are allowing much more oxygen to reach the cornea, the part of the eye on which the contact lens sits. Even if you are already comfortable with your current contact lenses, or if you have minor issues such as dryness and evening discomfort, changing to a more oxygen permeable and frequent replacement contact lens may be a healthier option. A high oxygen permeable contact lens tends to decrease symptoms of dryness, burning, irritation, redness and contact lens intolerance.

Those with presbyopia have many options regarding contact lenses. Rather than having to rely on reading glasses or bifocals, soft and hard gas permeable contact lens options are available to decrease (and possibly eliminate) the need for glasses for reading. Depending on your prescription, the optometrists will review different options. One option, monovision, is a method of correcting your dominant eye for distance, leaving your non-dominant eye slightly under-corrected to enable you to read up close.Another option, multifocal contact lenses, through their unique design, allow each eye to see both distance and near.

If you are interested in presbyopia-corrective contact lens options and have worn contacts before, do no hesitate to call and schedule a contact lens examination.

To order contact lenses on-line, click on "Order Contacts" tab located at the top of the home page.

Very competitive pricing

You´ll find that our prices are sensible, so that looking good in eyewear is affordable whatever your choice. Although many people think that eyewear purchased at their eye doctor´s office is more expensive than other eyewear, this is simply not true. In a recent price comparison of the same products, Berks Eye provided the best value in the region.

Our guarantee

Our service does not end when you pick up your new eyewear. We will gladly adjust your eyeglasses or answer your questions at any time. We stand behind our services. If you are not 100% satisfied with our products or service, we will do what it takes to make it right or refund your money - no questions asked.