history: Hiya! I'm back from recently getting glasses and am trying to adjust to them.
knowledge: Glasses are typically used for vision correction, such as with reading glasses and glasses used for nearsightedness.
response: What do you use the glasses for? Are they reading glasses or those for nearsightedness?
history: Hiya! I'm back from recently getting glasses and am trying to adjust to them.
What do you use the glasses for? Are they reading glasses or those for nearsightedness?
No, but I think getting them from the local Walmart wasn't the best of ideas. Do you know who can prescribe proper ones?
knowledge: Corrective lenses are typically prescribed by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist.
response: Yes, generally it is an ophthalmologist or optometrist that prescribes the corrective lenses.
history: Hiya! I'm back from recently getting glasses and am trying to adjust to them.
What do you use the glasses for? Are they reading glasses or those for nearsightedness?
No, but I think getting them from the local Walmart wasn't the best of ideas. Do you know who can prescribe proper ones?
Yes, generally it is an ophthalmologist or optometrist that prescribes the corrective lenses.
Well thank you for the help! I wonder how long they've been around.. The glasses, not optometrists!
knowledge: Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are devices consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically using a bridge over the nose and arms which rest over the ears.
response: I really don't know. But glasses are tools which have hard plastic or glass lenses that are mounted in a frame and holds them before a person's eyes.
history: Hiya! I'm back from recently getting glasses and am trying to adjust to them.
What do you use the glasses for? Are they reading glasses or those for nearsightedness?
No, but I think getting them from the local Walmart wasn't the best of ideas. Do you know who can prescribe proper ones?
Yes, generally it is an ophthalmologist or optometrist that prescribes the corrective lenses.
Well thank you for the help! I wonder how long they've been around.. The glasses, not optometrists!
I really don't know. But glasses are tools which have hard plastic or glass lenses that are mounted in a frame and holds them before a person's eyes.
The lenses are sometimes made of plastic? That's something I didn't know!
knowledge: Safety glasses provide eye protection against flying debris for construction workers or lab technicians; these glasses may have protection for the sides of the eyes as well as in the lenses.
response: Yes!  And some people need safety glasses to protect against flying debris.  People like construction workers or lab technicians
history: Hiya! I'm back from recently getting glasses and am trying to adjust to them.
What do you use the glasses for? Are they reading glasses or those for nearsightedness?
No, but I think getting them from the local Walmart wasn't the best of ideas. Do you know who can prescribe proper ones?
Yes, generally it is an ophthalmologist or optometrist that prescribes the corrective lenses.
Well thank you for the help! I wonder how long they've been around.. The glasses, not optometrists!
I really don't know. But glasses are tools which have hard plastic or glass lenses that are mounted in a frame and holds them before a person's eyes.
The lenses are sometimes made of plastic? That's something I didn't know!
Yes!  And some people need safety glasses to protect against flying debris.  People like construction workers or lab technicians
I'm guessing safety glasses do nothing to vision, right? They're just general use products.
knowledge: Some types of safety glasses are used to protect against visible and near-visible light or radiation.
response: I'm not sure of that, though some kinds can protect against things like radiation or visible and near-visible light.