How to Fix Crazing Eyeglass Lens

Small scratches on non-reflecting coated glasses are known as crazing. Crazing can happen for a number of reasons, including wiping the glasses with an abrasive surface or dropping them, and everyday wear and tear. The only way to repair them is to have them resurfaced with a non-reflective coating by your optometrist. There are three ways to resurface the glasses, and only his staff is capable of performing this procedure.

Things You'll Need

• Glasses
• Optometrist and staff

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Instructions

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  One procedure to resurface the lenses is a new coat is sprayed on the lens after the old coat is taken off (done by various methods), and then the lenses are exposed to a high heat that dries the new surfacing and causes it to harden.

• 2

  The non-reflecting coat can also be added when your lenses are crafted, where the anti-reflecting coat can actually be ingrained into the lens itself. This makes inadvertent removal much more difficult.

• 3

  The last way to resurface with a non-reflecting coat is through a vacuum process that includes putting the glasses into a machine that coats and dries the lenses in one fell swoop.