SCRATCHED LENSES
Scratched lenses? Replace, not polish.
A scratch in your field of vision is more than annoying: it scatters light, forces your eye to refocus around it, and gets worse with every cleaning. The internet is full of toothpaste-and-baking-soda cures. Here is the professional truth: they do not work, and they usually make things worse.
Modern lenses are coated — anti-reflective, scratch-resistant, smudge-repellent layers thinner than a hair. Any polishing abrasive enough to remove a scratch removes the coating around it first, leaving a blurry patch worse than the scratch. The honest fix is new lenses in the frame you already own — which is exactly what FrameLens does, in Dubai, within about 48 hours.
No account, no obligation — your exact price before you decide.
25%
below the official price list, always
48h
for most lenses, frame to collection
DIFC
cut and fitted in our Dubai atelier
Why opticians do not polish scratches
A prescription lens is a precise optical surface: its curves are computed to a fraction of a diopter for your correction. Polishing changes those curves unevenly — even if the scratch fades, the optics are compromised, and the coating damage shows as a permanent smear. No serious optician offers it, anywhere.
Replacement, by contrast, gives you a strictly better lens than the day you bought the originals: current-generation coatings like Crizal Rock and Sapphire HR resist the scratch that started this story far better than lenses made even five years ago.
New lenses, and a frame refresh if it deserves one
Order the replacement online: your prescription from a photo, verified by a licensed optician; your frame type; your lens and coating — always 25% below the official price list, exact price before payment. Then your frame comes to our DIFC atelier, in person or by courier, and your glasses come back within about 48 hours for standard lenses.
If years of wear show on the frame itself, add a professional frame renewal — polish and adjustment — and the whole pair comes back feeling new, not just seeing new.
Protected while it is with us
Your frame is covered at its current market value from the moment it is in our hands. If our optician judges it too fragile to re-lens safely, we refuse the job and refund you fully before touching it — a promise in writing, like the one-year guarantee on every coating we fit.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Can scratched glasses lenses be repaired or polished?
Honestly: no. The scratch-resistant and anti-reflective coatings on modern lenses cannot survive polishing — removing a scratch means removing the coating around it, which leaves a blur worse than the scratch. Home remedies like toothpaste do the same damage faster. Replacement is the only fix that actually restores your vision.
How much does it cost to replace scratched lenses?
It depends on your prescription and the lens you choose, and you see the exact figure before paying — always at least 25% below the official price list, VAT and fitting included. It is consistently far cheaper than replacing the whole pair, because the expensive part you love — the frame — stays.
Will new lenses scratch again?
Everything scratches eventually, but modern hard coatings are dramatically tougher than older generations. Crizal Rock is specifically engineered for scratch and impact resistance, and every coating we fit is guaranteed for one year against defects. A microfibre cloth instead of a shirt-tail does the rest.
My lenses are scratched but my prescription changed too — same process?
Even better: one replacement fixes both. Send a photo of your current prescription, choose your lenses, and the new pair comes back with fresh optics and fresh correction in the frame you already love.