Making prescription eyeglasses does the lab or the optometrist insert the lenses!


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Making prescription eyeglasses does the lab or the optometrist insert the lenses into the frame?


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In the office where I work, we have a lab technician (a very good one) who edges the lenses and assembles the glasses. We stock a certain range of lenses on-hand, like single vision plastic and polycarbonate. Anything else, like multifocal lenses or Transtions or polarized lenses or any specialty lens is ordered through a national lab that surfaces the lenses and ships them to us. We fax the orders in with all the info and they send us the surfaced blanks. Our Lab technician checks the lenses in to make sure they are correct and then edges the lenses on a patternless edger. She assembles them and sends them out front to be final inspected by the opticians. Then the glasses are cleaned, checked for scratches, the frames are put into 4-point alignment, and they they put in cases and then the patients are notified that their glasses are ready to be picked up.

In special circumstances for specialty eyewear (like goggles, or wrapped sunglasses, helmet inserts, or SCUBA masks) we may send the frame to the national lab and have them surface, edge, and assemble the glasses and send them back to us. Sometimes if the frame requires lenses with high base curves, their equipment finishes the jobs up nicer.

Our Optometrist does not deal with the lab at all...that is left up to the Lab technician and Opticians.




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