Buy Optical Lenses Online
Prescription lenses for glasses are easy to buy online, if you follow our simple steps, and you can save more than half the cost compared to retail stores, for the same high quality lenses. In this guide, we are going to walk you through the steps, because the more you know about eyeglasses, the less money it will cost you!
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You can buy a frame with prescription lenses online. Or, you can send in frames for replacement prescription lenses (we call that "replacement lenses"). Replacement glasses lenses are perfect for online mail order.
When you go to your doctor for an eye exam, be sure to leave the office with a paper copy of your prescription with the pupil distance on it. State and federal law requires that doctors give you this information. Once you have it, you can then submit your prescription to us, and we will make your lenses accordingly.
The type of prescription eyeglass lenses you choose is determined by your lifestyle and your needs. It is not determined by your doctor, although a doctor can help you make your decision. For example, if you need your glasses only for distance vision, or only for reading, then single vision lenses are the best choice.
Choose progressive lenses if your prescription has a reading addition AND you want your prescription glasses lenses for both distance and reading/computer vision. Progressive lenses are also known as "no-line" bifocals; they are great for most people, but some people experience problems with progressive lenses. In these cases, regular bifocal lensess or trifocal lenses may be a better choice.
For us to make progressive lenses in new frames, we may ask you for a segment height measurement. For replacement lenses, we can read the segment height from the lenses so you don't need to send it to us.
Most of the time, your prescription will determine the best lens material to use. In general, a high index lens will be thinner, but ONLY if you have a high enough prescription. If your prescription is under +/-3.00, then spending more money on a higher index lens will not help you. Conversely, the thinnest lenses for a high prescription will be the higher index lenses.
This is a specialty material that is recommended as a substitute for polycarbonate lenses. It is used to make rimless glasses, and also for prescription sunglasses. It is more expensive than polycarbonate.
We only use the highest quality lenses available in the U.S. - Crystal Vision Lenses, and Varilux lenses. For every lens group, you will see a "good, better, best" choice within that group. We do not sell any low quality, cheap lenses.
Once you have used our easy step by step system for choosing the perfect lenses for your needs, it is time to checkout. If you have vision insurance, there is a hack to get the most out of your plan: Send your invoice to your insurance company and receive your out of network benefit. Follow this link to find your vision insurance plan.
We use Essilor to make all of our lenses. Essilor is the largest and highest quality eyeglass lens maker in the world, with over 200 lens labs in the United States alone. So when you ask Eyeglasses.com to make your lenses, you are not getting a local guy cutting lenses in the back room on aged equipment. You are getting the very best plastic (or glass) lens, installed in a quality controlled, ISO 9000 lens-making laboratory. Your lenses pass through 16-21 quality control stations before they are finally released. If the lenses fail at any one of those stations, they are returned for further processing, or they are scrapped and begun again. Perfect lenses, guaranteed.
Five different groups are involved in the making of prescription lens. A problem in any one of these groups can lead to less effective lenses. The store you choose to make your lenses must insist on quality at every level in order for you to receive the best quality product. This kind of quality control is essential in order to ensure consistent results.
5) The person that cuts ("edges") the lens for your frame installs lenses so that the optical centers match the pupillary distance measurement. This could be an eyewear store employee, or lens laboratory.
There are hundreds of lens laboratories around the country, several in each state. A typical lens laboratory will do a minimum of a few hundred lenses a day with a large staff of highly trained and experienced technicians. A few optical stores (like Lenscrafters) have small surfacing facilities in each of their stores doing much smaller lens volume.
To surface a lens, the lens laboratory takes the blank and puts it through a series of grinding machines, which grinds the surface the lens and shapes it exactly to the specifications of the prescription. Lens laboratories also provide other services like edging and mounting, which optical stores can choose to use or not, depending on whether they want to do that work themselves. As with any custom service, the quality of the surfacing and any other services that the lab provides-- is determined by the experience and the expertise of the laboratory, its personnel, and the equipment it uses.
At Eyeglasses.com, we only use labs that employ a large staff of highly trained technicians, doing a large volume of lenses every day. We do none our own edging services ourselves - all of it is done by our lens laboratories. Most of our orders require stock lenses; all of our custom surfacing work is done by lens laboratories. The laboratories that we use each have many years of experience and do thousands of lenses each week. Each lab that we use inspects each lens several times during the manufacturing process. When we receive the finished product from the lab, we do our own final inspection.
Need help learning how to buy glasses online? Call or email our customer service department. We do answer the phone! Upload your photo and use our Virtual Try On application. Try our Frame Search page to look through our huge inventory for frames with your specific needs, such as frame size, material, and shape.
You can send us your own prescription glasses frames, and we can install new lenses for you with all kinds of lens materials - also known as "Replacement Lenses." Mail your eyeglasses frames to us with your new prescription, your name and phone number, and any instructions you may have. If you just want to redo your existing lenses, you do not need to send the prescription in because we can read your prescription from your old lenses. This is the easiest way to achieve vision correction, because we do not need a glasses prescription; we can read your glasses prescription off of the prescription lenses your send us even if they are multifocal lenses. Or, you can mail us a new eyeglass prescription and we can use that instead to make your new prescription glasses. After we receive your package, we will call you to complete the order. You can mail us your prescription eyeglasses, and we can install new lenses.
The easiest and fastest way to find the right size prescription glasses online for you to wear is to use your current glasses as a benchmark. Once you know the size of your current glasses, you have a frame of reference for a new pair of glasses. So let's say for example that your glasses have this size: 50-20-145. You can now use the Advanced Search function to search for eyeglasses with a similar size. When you do the search, search the eye size range 49-51, and search the bridge range 18-22, and do not search the temple size. Temple size is really not important except in very special cases. Searching a range of sizes is important because it vastly increases the number of results you will get, and also the difference in sizes will be almost unnoticeable compared to your current eyeglasses. After this, you can easily buy glasses online, or reading glasses, or whatever you need.
2) Measure your glasses with a millimeter ruler. The eye size is measured from one side of the lens to the other, horizontally, at the widest points. The bridge size is the distance between the lenses at the closest point. The temple size is measured from the tip to the hinge, including the bend.
Almost all eyeglass frames are designed so they can be adjusted. You can take your eyeglass frames to a local optical professional or vision center for an adjustment or read more about adjusting your eyeglasses.
Eyeglasses can be divided into four main categories of frame types: full-rim, half-rim, rimless eyeglasses, and shield. For additional information, read our article on eyeglasses types. We always recommend UV protection for your lenses, which will not impact your personal style choice.
At Eyeglasses.com, we offer the world's largest selection of prescription lenses, including multifocal lens products and plastic lenses. Your vision depends on matching your prescription needs with the lens characteristics; if the lens does not fulfill the needs of the prescription, your vision will be impacted. Prescription lens products provide very clear vision, whether made of plastic or glass. The essential elements of safety glasses are thick, indestructible polycarbonate material.
One question we often get is, "What are the right size eyeglasses for me?" The answer to the question is usually whatever you like. The buy the right size glasses online, simply find out the size of glasses you are wearing now, and use that as a guide. Read our article on right size eyeglasses to learn about frame measurements.
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Eyeglasses.com has the largest selection of eyeglasses on the planet. Shopping online for a complete pair of eyeglasses from one of the top brands like Ray Ban and Gucci has never been easier. Why visit a Lenscrafters or Target Optical store and pay the inflated retail price for new frames when you can you can get massive selection and much lower prices at this website? Why pay full price for eyewear when you can get the perfect pair right here? We have more frame styles than any other store, and you can compare frame styles before you buy. Sure, get your comprehensive eye exam at any eye doctor. We offer prescription lenses or clear lenses, frames only or as non prescription sunglasses. We also offer the largest lens selection online, including blue blocking lenses with a blue light filtering coating, anti reflective coatings, with every possible variation of high quality lenses options, lenses brands, reading glasses, lenses coatings and lenses features. In fact, we offer so many different lenses and service that customer often call us to help them decide, and then we do the checkout for them. Unlike other online glasses retailers, we provide personal service on every order; to us, buying online glasses is the same as if you walked into our store. 041b061a72