How do optometrists check your specific vision?

because they just told me to look at some letters small big medium. did some depth-perception booklets looked at my eyes thru something while dilated and checked my eyes again or something. if just using letters wont like a lot of peoples vision or glasses be the same? i know Read more

Do optometrists and ophthalmologists keep secrets from their patients to make money?

If they say there are eye exercises (which there is, it has been proved by many ophthalmologists) to improve eye vision, then they wouldn’t make money. They tell you that you can only wear glasses (to make money off the frames)

So, that is ONE of MANY secrets they keep. Read more

Will my optometrists' office give me my prescription to take to another lens store?

I want to buy my glasses at a different place to the one where they have my prescription on file. I don’t have to have another eye exam just to buy some glasses at a different optometrists office do I? I can just ask for my prescription?

Are there any optometrists that will polish the lenses?

I have scratches on my glasses, and have no job or insurance to pay for new glasses. Someone suggested that an optometrist might do this for FREE. I am in the western suburbs of Chicago. Does anyone know of any place that will do this?

How do optometrists know if a baby needs glasses or not?

I was in the dentist’s office and i saw a baby with glasses. How do the optometrists know they need glasses if they can’t take the eye test? (You know the one where you have to read the letters on the paper)