When to Bring Eyeglasses to an Optician

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When should you bring your glasses into the optician for a professional to fix? I'm always in favor of preventative care with anything and that really includes glasses. Anytime you're in your optician's neighborhood, your optician should be glad to adjust your glasses, check the screws, make sure everything's tight, make sure they're fitting, they're not stretched out. But other than that, obviously if your lens has fallen out of your glasses several times, it's time to take it in to the optician. If your frame is stretched out, it's time to take it to the optician. You shouldn't be doing that yourself. I've got a few examples here. I'm going to show you this frame and hopefully the camera will illustrate how this one temple is way more further up than this other one. Let's say you stepped on your glasses, this would be a good illustration of that. If you step on your glasses, don't try to bend them, especially in a drill mount. You don't want to just be bending your drill mount back around. What you want to do is take it into your optician to be fixed, okay? This one, if you can see how one side is so much more stretched out than the other one throwing the balance of the glasses off kilter. Again, take it to your optician. Don't bend. Probably the most fragile thing on the frame is going to be the hinge. That's where everything connects. You can snap the hinge off, you could do a lot of damage to the glasses in that way. Finally, when you have plastic glasses, plastic glasses react to heat. Generally speaking, your glasses can get stretched out because there's no...the hinge here is plastic, so it's going to be stretched out like this. So an optician, what they can do is they use heat and they can bring it in a little bit tighter for you. Again, something that I would suggest that you bring and have a professional take a look at.

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