How to Get Eyeglass Lenses Corrected

If your new eyeglass lenses don't seem quite right, you may need to simply get used to your new prescription or the lenses might not be made correctly. Adjustment time for new glasses is usually up to a week. If the problem is with the lenses, you will have to have them remade. There are several steps to getting your eyeglass lenses corrected.

Things You'll Need

• Current optical prescription

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Instructions

• 1

  Return to the optical retail store where you purchased your glasses. Have an optician check the lenses and verify that your glasses were made according to your prescription. Your lenses have to be made to the exact specification from your eye doctor's prescription, just like a pharmacy filling a medication prescription. If the lenses are wrong, either the lab made the lenses incorrectly, or the doctor's prescription for your lenses is wrong. If the lab made the lenses wrong, the optical retail store should remake your lenses at no charge.

  A frame that is out of adjustment will adversely affect your vision, so an adjustment may fix some vision problems, too. Ask the optician to make sure your glasses are adjusted correctly.

• 2

  Take your eyeglasses and your prescription to a licensed optician at a different retail optical store and ask for a second verification of your prescription if you are still unsure that the lenses were made correctly. Most opticians will provide this service at no charge. If you are told your lenses have been made according to the doctor's prescription, you will have to visit your eye doctor to have the prescription corrected.

• 3

  Schedule an appointment with the eye doctor who originally examined you. Most eye-care practitioners will perform a re-check for little or no charge if you are having problems with your new prescription and the lenses have been made according to the original exam. If your doctor changes your prescription, most optical retail stores will remake your lenses for free within a specified time period, usually up to 60 days.