Purchasing eyewear is an important decision in which several factors should be considered. Our trained professional staff will assist you by determining your specific eyeglass needs. We consider lifestyle, work environments, sports, and safety. Eye glasses are worn continually, so they should reflect your personality and enhance your appearance.

Frames

At Penobscot Eye Care, our frame selection includes Value, High Fashion, Designer, Sunglasses, Sports Goggles, and more. All of our frames are guaranteed. Our trained eyewear professionals help you make the right choice based on your Skin Tone, Face Shape, Lifestyle, and Prescription. We service and repair all of our products.

Eyeglass Frame Materials

Different eyeglass frame materials greatly expand your options for a new look. While shopping for new eyeglasses or sunglasses, ask your optician for advice about variety in colors, durability, lightness, favorite brands, hypoallergenic materials, uniqueness, and price. In fact, finding eyeglasses with the most important qualities to you could be as simple as choosing the correct frame material because each type has its own unique strengths.

Sunglasses

Performance sunglasses leave your street shades far behind in terms of flexibility, durability, non-slip materials, and high-quality lenses. Find out which features to look for, whether you need sunglasses for a specific sport like golf or all-purpose toughness for the rugged outdoors.

Sport Eye Glasses

If you’re not wearing protective eyewear, consider this. Prevent Blindness America reports that hospital emergency rooms treat more than 40,000 sports-related eye injuries every year. Even non-contact sports like badminton can present inherent dangers to the eye.

Lenses

These days, lenses offer a lot more than vision correction. They can be customized to fit your lifestyle, too. When you come into Penobscot Eye Care, we’ll walk you through your lens options. We also offer complimentary maintenance to keep your eyewear performing at its best.

Transitions®

Simply put, Transitions® lenses adapt. Transitions® adjust from clear indoors to dark outdoors. It’s not just about light or dark. It’s about everything in between. No matter where you are or what situation you’re in, Transitions® lenses adapt to the perfect shade so that you can see with just the right amount of light.

Progressive Lenses

Like regular bifocals, progressive lenses provide a range of vision that varies from distance to near but without the line across the lens that bifocals have. Penobscot Eye Care chooses to use Varilux lenses as our primary choice for progressive lens patients. Eight different patents protect Varilux lenses. When you wear Varilux lenses, you are guaranteed the best technology available for treating presbyopia.

UV Radiation Checklist

• Do you spend a great deal of time outdoors?
• Do you spend time skiing, mountain climbing, or at the beach?
• Do you use a sunlamp or tanning parlor?
• Do you live in the mountains of the United States Sunbelt?
• Are you a welder, medical technologist, or do you work in the graphic arts or the manufacture of electronic circuit boards?
• Do you take prescription or over-the-counter drugs that can increase your sensitivity to UV radiation? Check with your optometrist, pharmacist, or physician.
• Have you had cataract surgery in one or both eyes?