Depending on your vision, getting your glasses updated on a regular basis may or may not be a part of your plans. However, old glasses can actually do a lot to make you look and feel older than you are. If you're overdue to replace your glasses, keep in mind that you could be causing these three problems for yourself.

Wrinkles

When glasses get old, chances are you're looking through lenses that are no longer the right prescription for you. Prescriptions tend to change over time, and forcing yourself to look through the wrong prescription can be difficult at best.

If you're trying to see through glasses that aren't right for you, it may be causing you to unintentionally squint. This squinting can cause wrinkles to form around your eyes. If you're trying to avoid crows feet for as long as possible, make sure you're updating your glasses as frequently as your eye doctor recommends.

Eye Strain

While vision prescriptions change over time, you still have the potential to make it worse for yourself. Staring through glasses that aren't right for you don't just make it hard to see - they cause eye strain.

Long-term eye strain may actually worsen your vision and leave you with eyes that feel dry and tired all the time. While this isn't typically a symptom that's visible to the outside world, you could prematurely damage your vision and need a prescription that people your age normally wouldn't.

Optional Filtering

Some people can go for long periods of time without needing a new vision prescription. In that case, there's nothing wrong with sticking with what you have, right? Unfortunately, you could still be short-changing your looks and your health.

In recent years, blue light filtering and UV filtering for clear-lens glasses have become much more popular. Many people opted out of these filters, assuming that they didn't spend enough time around blue light for it to hurt them, and because they wore sunglasses outside. However, blue light is now abundant, coming from all forms of electronics, and people have a better understanding of UV radiation; for example, how you still get exposed to UV light indoors.

If your glasses are lacking these two optional filtering coatings, you're increasing your risk of early eye damage and sun damage to the eye and the surrounding skin.

Replacing your glasses on a regular basis should be a normal part of life, just like changing your tires. In order for all of you to function properly, you need your eyes to be healthy and youthful for as long as possible. Talk to an eye doctor, like Dr Joel Zuckerbraun PC, about getting a new pair of glasses.