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How to Read the Prescription (or prescription) of your Glasses?

A lens prescription is a document that is filled in by a qualified optician or ophthalmologist and collects all the necessary parameters to correct your vision problem.

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How to Read the Prescription (or prescription) of your Glasses?

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  1. How to Read the Prescription (or prescription) of your Glasses? A lens prescription is a document that is filled in by a qualified optician or ophthalmologist and collects all the necessary parameters to correct your vision problem. 1. (OS) and right eye (OD) in Latin. You may also see OU, referring to both eyes. Observe your prescription. Locate the initials OS and OD. These are abbreviations of the left eye 2. visual defect will be. The first number is the dioptres (also called spherical) and can be positive (indicating farsightedness) or negative (indicating myopia). Now look at the numbers next to the abbreviations. The higher the number is, the worse the 3. means that you will have three values: Spherical, Cylindrical and Axis. The cylindrical can be positive or negative, axis values are between 0° and 180°. If you can see more digits for one or both eyes, this means that you have astigmatism. This 4. graduation for near may appear as the far one (spherical, cylindrical, axis) or only indicate the addition for near, a value between +0.50 and +3.50 that is depending on the age. If you have presbyopia, two graduations will appear: one for near and the other one for far. The

  2. 5. centres. Also, on your prescription may appear two values: inter papillary distance and separation of Source - https://www.ieyebeauty.com/contact-lenses/prescription-colored-cotnacts/

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