Prescriptions with prism correction How often should you get an eye exam? If you don’t have any medical issues that affect your vision, you should have a comprehensive eye exam every one to two years. Children should have their first eye exam when they are around six months old, and then...
Terms Specific to Contact Lens Prescriptions If you receive a contact lens prescription, there are additional terms and abbreviations to help with eye prescription meaning: PWR (Power)/SPH (Sphere): On a contact lens prescription, you may see the SPH written as Power, which is the strength ...
If this is your first time with a child in glasses, you may not know where to start, let alone how to read a prescription for glasses. It may feel intimidating, but don't worry! It's actually easier than you might think to read a prescription. Follow our
Understanding your eyeglass prescription is easy! Learn how to read it with Zenni Optical's examples of common types.
The two prescriptions are not interchangeable. Nearly 75% of the population needs some sort of vision correction, and the chance that you are one of them increases with age. So schedule an annual eye exam as part of your routine health care, to make sure your eye prescription is up-to-da...
On your eyeglasses prescription, the information for your right eye (OD) comes before the information for your left eye (OS). Eye doctors write prescriptions this way because when they come face to face with you, they see your right eye on their left (first) and your left eye on their...
OD vs OS in prescriptions The OD and OS abbreviations are both Latin acronyms that stand for the left and right eyes, respectively:OS left eye (oculus sinister) and OD right eye (oculus dextrus). There are times when you'll encounter the symbol OU, which denotes anything involving both ey...
An example eye prescription chart Can eyeglass prescriptions be used to buy contact lenses? Making sense of your eye prescription chart The numbers on your eyeglass prescription relate to the shape of your eyes and strength of your vision. They can help you figure out whether you havenearsighted...
Don’t worry, you — and your peepers — are in good hands, as we’re about to spill the beans on “normal eye axis” and other terms typically found in eyecare prescriptions. What Is the Eye Axis? Before we talk about what counts as a normal eye axis, let’s first take a look ...
When you schedule your eye exam, it is important to ask the doctor's office two questions: 1) Do they release contact lens prescriptions?; and 2) Will they prescribe you a national brand that can be purchased anywhere? The federal requirement to release prescriptions is new, so it helps ...