3M Press-On Prisms

3M™ Press-On™ Optics, also known as Fresnel Prisms, and Press-On Aspherics, provide a system for creating prismatic and spherical corrections.

3M™ Press-On™ Optics offer the eye care professional and the patient several benefits:
  • A simple, therapeutic, inexpensive, way to correct several visual disorders.
  • Provide an immediate correction.
  • They are more comfortable, more cosmetically appealing treatment for strabismus and dipolpia than conventional prisms.
  • They add NO noticeable weight or thickness to the spectacle.
  • Press-on prism material is flexible static vinyl which can easily be cut to shape with scissors to determine the acceptance of a proposed corrective prescription.
  • Adheres with just water to existing lenses, yet it can be easily repositioned.
  • Apply a Press-On sphere or prism to the back surface of one or both lenses of the patient's eyeglasses with just water.
  • It can be applied to the entire lens or to any region of the lens.
  • A full range of 17 powers from 1.00 to 40.00 prism diopters allows you to broaden therapeutic uses & provide additional treatment options in your practice.

Made of polyvinyl chloride


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