Your prescription
We do not provide eye examination services. You have to provide your optometry prescription to us.
There are 3 ways to give us your prescription:
1. Clone from your existing glasses
A completed prescription can be cloned from your latest glasses.
You place order online, we can clone from the glasses shipped to us.
2. Professional Optometry Clinic
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has five clinics under the School of Optometry to provide services to the public:
The "General Eye and Low Vision Center" of the Guidance Association for the Blind and the Precious Blood Hospital (Caritas) Optometry Center in Sham Shui Po also have professional optometry clinics. In addition to refractive examinations for eyewear lens, the oprometriy clinic will also provide visual acuity and visual function assessment.
3. Eyewear Receipts
You can find your full prescription on your eyewear receipt.
Common prescription abbreviations
(Required optometry information in blue)
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Abbr |
Represents |
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R (OD) |
Right Eye |
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L (OS) |
Left Eye |
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SPH |
Spherical power of the lens , negative value represents myopia |
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CYL |
Astigmatism (only negative values) |
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AXI |
Astigmatism axis position, measured by angle (1-180 degrees) |
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ADD |
Addition Power, the spherical power to be increased by the progressive lens, Single vision lens (distance/near vision) does not have this reading |
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PD |
Pupil Distance |
