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A full prescription is a conventional glasses prescription. An optometrist will test your vision and determine the amount of refractive error in your eyes, and write a prescription as close as possible to that. The full prescription should correct your vision so that there is no blur at 20 feet.

A prescription may look like this:

Rx SPH CYL AXIS PRISM BASE Add
-O.D. -2.0 -0.5 130 BO +1.5
-O.S. -2.25 -0.75 42 BI +1.25

OD is oculus dextrus, or Latin for right eye. OD is oculus sinister, or Latin for left eye.

Rounding

You will note that most prescriptions will round to the nearest quarter diopter. This is the level of precision available in standard pre-ground lenses, which make glasses cheaper and faster to make than custom ground lenses. You may have a more precise prescription if it is written for specific lens grinding systems, or a less precise prescription it is written for contacts.

Contacts Vs Glasses

Your prescription is specifically written for either contacts or glasses. Vertex Distance plays a role in effective lens strength, so the contacts which sit closer to your eye may be written as a weaker prescription than glasses. Vertex Distance is hard to measure, and contacts may act differently as the eye adapts to them, so if you have a strong lens your optometrist may need to do additional refraction tests with the contacts in and adjust your prescription slightly.

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