why can't dr's offices order an odd number of contact lenses?

The doctor's office orders the contact lenses from the manufacturers that make them. With most types of contact lenses they sell them in boxes of six.... that is just the way it is!! The manufacturer's only offer some types of lenses to be sold in boxes of 6!! Your doctors office has no control over this how the contact lens manufactures choose to package your lenses. The only way you can avoid this is wearing contact lenses that are sold separately in vials. These contacts are usually a lot more expensive! Also it is possible if the reason why your contact lenses ripped was due to a defect they will replace the lens for free!

Buying a new box of lenses is not a waste of money...because you will end up wearing all of the lenses eventually anyways....and who knows maybe you will rip or damage another one and even it out :)

The contact lenses that are SOLD by your eye doctor do only come in boxes of six and sometimes twelve. This is how the manufacturer boxes the contacts. BUT most doctors order diagnostic lenses to fit patients and to replace torn contact lenses or defective contact lenses for patients. We actually have a policy in our office that if you stay on your exam schedule and order your contacts from us, we will replace a single contact lens from our diagnostics. Not all optometrists make this option available to their patients. But this is one of the few ways you can get a single contact lens replaced.

My guess would be the majority of us do not have one eye but have two.

maybe they dont have any, or arent manufactured with those numbers.