Many people wear bifocal eyeglasses, but unfortunately too, there is a large amount of people wearing bifocal eyeglasses with the bifocal set to the wrong height. While it is the job of the optician to make sure that your bifocal eyeglasses are fitted with the correct bifocal height, unfortunately to today’s standards that doesn’t seem to happen very often.

Globally it is the responsibility of the optician and the eyeglasses store to make sure that your eyeglasses fit correctly. However, you as the consumer and eyeglass wearer sometimes don’t realize that the height of your bifocal is incorrect. With that said, you can easily go the entire life of your eyeglasses not knowing that you suffer from wearing a pair of your eyeglasses incorrectly.

Here is a little tip for you that will help educate you more about the proper height of a bifocal. While opticians indeed do their job with measuring you with the eyeglasses on your face, rarely do they ask you to sit in your natural state. Everyone has their own unique sitting and standing positions. People all have different postures. With that though, rarely do opticians ask you to sit in your natural state. Instead, they ask you to sit up straight in your chair while they take your bifocal measurement.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the fault of the optician, this is the fault of the employer who provides the “on the job” training. If you find yourself in a situation where an optician is measuring you for a bifocal, be sure to sit in a natural and comfortable position similar to how you would at home while reading the newspaper or at work while on the computer. Doing so will increase the likelyhood of having a pair of bifocal eyeglasses measured correctly to your face.

If you feel that your bifocal height isn’t set correctly you can always return to the store and explain this to an optician. Most eyeglass stores have a remake policy where you can have the lenses remade at no cost if they aren’t made correctly. You do need to let them know fairly quickly after the initial purchase.

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