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12 Orynbor St. Look for the blue façade with the eye sign.
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Glasses made to an old prescription tire your eyes by evening. Lenses are matched on instruments and checked for how you see through them up close and far away. You’ll choose frames at the optician in this same building, with no hunting around town.
10,000 ₸per fitting · prescription in hand
Other complaints besides glasses? An ophthalmologist visit — from 20,000 ₸ per visit, the back-of-the-eye exam included.
10,000 ₸ per fitting
from 20,000 ₸ per visit · if you have complaints
Glasses fitting is a vision check on instruments plus choosing lenses, after which you get a prescription: the lens power for each eye, the cylinder and axis for astigmatism, the reading addition and the distance between the pupils. At RB CLINIC (Astana, 12 Orynbor St) glasses fitting costs 10,000 ₸ per fitting. If something besides glasses bothers you, it’s better to start with an ophthalmologist visit (from 20,000 ₸ per visit): the doctor will examine the whole eye, not just visual acuity. Children’s glasses are fitted at our children’s branch, BABY EYE CLINIC. Booking: +7 771 848 00 00 (WhatsApp), Mon–Sat 9:00–19:00.
Glasses prescription
A prescription has five lines, and each is responsible for its own thing. One mistake in any of them — and the glasses seem to help, but by evening you have a headache. Like shoes half a size too small: you can walk in them, but they’re not comfortable.
Tap a line of the prescription
A sample prescription for short-sightedness with astigmatism after 45. Your numbers will be your own.
OD — right eye
A prescription is written only after a check: choosing glasses from someone else’s prescription or “by eye” in a shop is a lottery.
Minus — short-sightedness: distance is blurry. Plus — long-sightedness: reading and close work are hard. The bigger the number, the stronger the lens. The step is 0.25, and the eyes feel even one step off by evening.
A cylinder is needed when the eye bends light differently in different directions: letters look doubled, edges are blurred. If there’s no CYL line — there’s no astigmatism, or it’s too small to correct.
The angle from 0 to 180° at which the cylinder is set. If the axis is off by 10–15° — glasses with the right power will still “pull” at your eyes. That’s why the axis is checked on an instrument, not copied from old glasses.
Appears after 40–45, when the eye finds it harder to focus up close. It’s used to make reading glasses or progressive lenses: distance, screen and book in one frame.
In millimetres. The optician uses it to place the centre of the lens right in front of the pupil. A couple of millimetres off — and even accurate lenses cause eye strain, especially with a strong prescription.
Fitting or a doctor
Vision changes without warning, and the eyes adapt and tire quietly. If you recognise yourself in even one point below — it’s time to check your prescription.
Eyeglass prescription
Better to see a doctor first
Then the problem may not be the lenses. Start with an ophthalmologist consultation.
Children
From the chart to the prescription
The instrument gives the numbers, but your eyes have the final say. Lenses are tried on until you see both clearly and comfortably.
Prices from the price list
Glasses fitting at RB CLINIC is 10,000 ₸ per fitting. If you’d like your eyes checked from top to bottom at the same time, a full eye exam is better value: choosing lenses is already included.
The price list is not a public offer: the administrator will confirm the price again when you book. Frames and lenses are paid for separately at the optician.
Consulting doctor
Glasses correct vision, but they don’t treat the eye. If vision is dropping quickly or you have other complaints, book the consulting ophthalmologist: she’ll examine the back of the eye and tell you whether glasses alone are enough.
Ophthalmologist, ophthalmic surgeon
Consulting ophthalmologist: red eye, worsening vision, glasses. She’ll examine the eye under a microscope and the back of the eye, and tell you whether glasses will be enough.
from 20,000 ₸ per visit · with a back-of-the-eye exam
See clearly, without eye strain
Write to us on WhatsApp what you need glasses for: distance, reading or the computer. Bring your old glasses and prescription to the visit, if you have them.
The optician — in this same building.
Questions
At RB CLINIC it’s 10,000 ₸ per fitting. A full eye exam with choosing lenses, eye pressure, a back-of-the-eye exam and a doctor is 20,000 ₸ per visit.
It’s worth checking your prescription every year or two, and more often for children and after 40. Sooner — if you’ve started squinting, holding your phone further away or getting headaches by evening.
They can, but it’s a lottery: your vision may have changed, and the cylinder axis and the distance between the pupils in the old prescription may have been inaccurate. A check takes one visit.
SPH — lens power: minus for short-sightedness, plus for long-sightedness. CYL — the cylinder that corrects astigmatism. AX — the cylinder axis in degrees. There may also be ADD — the reading addition and PD — the distance between the pupils.
Children’s glasses are fitted at our children’s branch, BABY EYE CLINIC, 2A Syganak St: with drops that relax the eye, and by a paediatric ophthalmologist.
At the RB OPTICS optician in this same building at 12 Orynbor St, or at any other optician: the prescription is yours.
RB CLINIC, Astana, 12 Orynbor St · +7 771 848 00 00 · Directions
