Downes Opticians is an Independent Opticians in Leith, Edinburgh and North Berwick, East Lothian with outstanding customer care and strong ethical values. We specialise in children's eye care, dyslexia consultations, myopia control and all around excellent patient service. We also love, love, love glasses and have a unique choice of frames for all tastes and we will go to the end of the earth to find the perfect frame for you!
We have a whole host of options to provide the best possible optical correction for your chosen sport. We can slow your child's myopic progression by up to 59% with our specialist expertise in this groundbreaking treatment. Our specialist clinics could be the breakthrough your child needs to aid their reading and learning potential.
We have a whole host of options to provide the best possible optical correction for your chosen sport. We can slow your child's myopic progression by up to 59% with our specialist expertise in this groundbreaking treatment. Our specialist clinics could be the breakthrough your child needs to aid their reading and learning potential.
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About us
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Our passion for providing comprehensive eye examinations teamed with our state of the art equipment allows us to fully explore the eye's health as well as detect any ocular prescriptive issues. We believe in giving back to the community. Leith has a strong community spirit and we are pleased to be a part of that, as an independent local optician.
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Increased screen times for children has been inevitable during Lockdown and is set to continue, with home schooling being on the radar for the foreseeable future. There is a lot of misleading information about the damage that 'screens' cause our eyes and vision, here is a quick summary to keep you up to date with the facts!
Charity work
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Vision Aid Overseas is a charity providing eye care and spectacles to the most needy in the third world. Clare has been actively involved with this charity since 2004. She has volunteered on two projects to Ethiopia and on each project helped give over 2000 people the gift of sight. Spectacles donated by you are repaired, upgraded and then after the eye examination, matched to the individual.
Sports vision clinic
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Let our visual expertise enhance you sporting performance. As sport enthusiasts we strive to give our optimum performance in our chosen sports and will spend valuable time researching techniques, equipment, diet, fitness regimes. If you've not tried contact lenses for sport you're most likely missing out on the most precise vision and full field of vision available.
Myopia Management
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Downes Opticians are one of a handful of Opticians chosen for our expertise to fit MiSight the first daily disposable contact lens for myopia management. Myopia is becoming a global epidemic and it is believed that over half of the world's population will be myopic by 2050. Decades of research and extensive trials have now ascertained a mechanism for slowing myopia by up to 59% with these particular contact lenses.
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