Optician in Montréal
PrimeVision is an optician and optometry clinic at 9520 Bd de l'Acadie in Montréal, near Marché Central. Your glasses are selected, measured and fitted by a licensed optician, in the same place where our optometrists examine your eyes. You can also bring a valid prescription from another clinic.
Your optician: Michel Geha
Michel Geha is a dispensing optician and a member of the Ordre des opticiens d'ordonnances du Québec, permit number 3675. He is the founder of PrimeVision. He helps you choose a frame that works with your prescription, takes the measurements your lenses depend on, recommends the lens design and coatings that fit how you use your eyes, and adjusts the finished glasses on your face.
What an optician does
In Québec, a dispensing optician is the regulated professional who fills an optical prescription. The optometrist examines your eyes and writes the prescription. The optician turns that prescription into glasses or contact lenses that actually work for you:
- Choosing a frame that suits your face, your prescription and your lifestyle
- Measuring pupil distance and fitting height, which decide whether progressive lenses feel right
- Recommending lenses: single vision, progressive, office, photochromic, polarized, high-index
- Verifying the finished lenses against the prescription before you receive them
- Adjusting the glasses so they sit straight, stay put and feel comfortable
- Repairing and readjusting glasses over time
Why the fitting matters
Two pairs of glasses made from the same prescription can feel completely different. If the optical centre of a lens sits a few millimetres from where your eye looks through it, you can get eye strain, headaches or a swimming sensation, especially with strong prescriptions and progressive lenses. Careful measurements and a proper fitting are what make a prescription comfortable to wear all day.
Optician services at PrimeVision
- Prescription glasses, with lenses cut and mounted to your prescription
- Progressive, Transitions and blue light lenses, and anti-reflective coatings
- Prescription sunglasses and polarized lenses
- Myopia control lenses for children: MiyoSmart and Stellest
- New lenses in a frame you already own, when the frame is in good condition
- Adjustments and minor repairs, free for life on eyewear bought from us
- Designer frames: eyeglasses and sunglasses from Ray-Ban, Gucci, Prada, Dior, Tom Ford, Saint Laurent and more
Optician, optometrist or ophthalmologist?
The optometrist examines your eyes and prescribes. The optician fills the prescription and fits your glasses. The ophthalmologist is a medical doctor and surgeon who treats eye disease. At PrimeVision you have an optometrist and an optician under one roof, so your exam and your glasses are handled together. Read more about our optometrists in Montréal.
Insurance
We bill most major insurers directly for glasses and contact lenses, so you pay only the difference. RAMQ offers a reimbursement toward glasses bought for a child under 18.
Visit your optician in Montréal
PrimeVision, 9520 Bd de l'Acadie, Suite 222, Montréal, QC H4N 1L8, in Ahuntsic-Cartierville near Marché Central. Open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk in to choose a frame or for an adjustment, call 514-827-7463, or book an eye exam online.