How to Read Your Eyeglass Prescription

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Your prescription looks like a grid of numbers and abbreviations, but it is simpler than it seems once you know what each part means.

  • OD is your right eye, OS is your left eye.
  • SPH (sphere) is the lens power for near- or far-sightedness.
  • CYL and AXIS describe astigmatism correction.
  • ADD is the extra power for reading, used in progressive and bifocal lenses.

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