No two patients are ever alike. That's why Zeiss developed breakthrough technology that creates a premium progressive lens for each individual patient. Gradal Individual allows you to incorporate new measurements for truly individualized lenses. Plus, two channel lengths, with fitting heights starting at 15 mm, enable you to deliver perfect vision, individualized comfort and patient satisfaction.

Gradal Individual & Gradal Short i

Maximum Performance, One Patient At A Time

Precision Beyond Base Curves
You may think that current traditional progressive lenses are custom designed for each patient when in fact they are not.

Traditional progressive lens base curves are calculated on averages, and if a patient's distinct requirements fall beyond
this range, and most do, vision is compromised. Zeiss Gradal Individual progressives leave base curve technology behind and give you the opportunity to offer true custom designed lenses.

How? New complex optical design software technology combined with state-of-the-art CNC tri-axial diamond surfacing generates totally customized progressive lenses. Standard base curves are not needed.

Gradal Individual progressives provide:

- Unprecedented clarity
- Superior adaptability
- Optimized wide viewing areas
- Horizontal symmetry
- Virtually no distortion

Optical Superiority, Made to Order
For the first time ever, the Rx, PD, back vertex distance, pantoscopic angle, frame dimensions and actual near working distance may all be incorporated in the design of each lens for each patient - all but eliminating astigmatic errors. The benefits are:

- clearest and widest distance portion
- dramatic improvements in intermediate and near zones, both in visual acuity and wider fields of vision (see charts for additional information)
- even greater improvements for patients whose individual measurements deviate from the average:
- small or large PD's, vertex distances, pantoscopic angles, and near working distances
- high and oblique cylinders
- prismatic Rx's
- high adds

What's really spectacular is that even without all individual measurements provided, Gradal Individual progressives still outperform all other traditional PAL's on the market only using the Rx and PD.

No matter what your patient's individual needs, Gradal Individual progressives allow you to offer a new degree of perfection.

One Incredible Technology, Two Superb Options
The Gradal Individual difference is dramatic, and Zeiss lets you offer it in two versions for even more flexibility.

The Gradal Individual features a minimum fitting height of 18 mm and will accommodate patients who prefer traditional frame sizes.

With an amazingly low fitting height of 15 mm, the short corridor Gradal Short i delivers perfect progressive vision in today's fashionable smaller frames:

- 20% shorter progressive zone than Gradal Individual
- shortest progressive zone on the market
- virtually unlimited styling options

The Gradal Individual "100" Guarantee
100% for 100 Days is the guarantee you receive for the most advanced progressive lens available in the marketplace. Zeiss guarantees the patient's 100% satisfaction with the Gradal Individual and Gradal Short i for 100 days and will accept returns during this period for any reason whatsoever.

For more information and technical specifications, please refer to the Gradal Individual and Gradal Short i Fitting Guide