★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,100+ patient reviews | Vero Beach 772-299-1404 Fort Pierce 772-410-2810 | New patients welcome · Saturday hours in Vero Beach | Patient Forms
Your Vision is Our Focus · Since 2003

Premium cataract surgery, and your day back.

Topical anesthesia. No needle, no patch, no IV sedation — and most patients are able to resume normal activities immediately after surgery.

8 ophthalmologists & 2 optometrists Our own three-OR accredited surgery center Cornea · Glaucoma · Retina · Oculofacial plastics since 2003 Saturday hours in Vero Beach New patients & second opinions always welcome
The Center for Advanced Eye Care building on US Highway 1 in Vero Beach at dusk
3500 US Highway 1, Vero Beach — our main office, the optical, the dispensary and the Advanced Eye Surgery Center, all in one building. Open Saturdays.
Do I need surgery?

Most people don't come in because of a test result.

Cataracts arrive slowly, and vision you lose gradually is easy to explain away. The most common reasons in our practice are below — but it can be anything vision-related that interferes with your daily activities.

Most common

Night driving

Halos, starbursts and glare around headlights — or simply a loss of quality, a fading of contrast that is harder to name. Either way you start avoiding the roads after dark, or quietly limiting how far from home you are willing to go.

Around here, decisive

You lose the ball

You hit it and lose it in flight — or you cannot follow your partner's ball either, which is the version people mention first, because it is harder to blame on the swing. On the tennis court it shows up the same way: the ball is simply harder to pick up than it used to be.

Gradual, then obvious

Reading is work

You need more light than you used to. Or you can still read, but it tires you now, when it used to be effortless.

Those are the three we hear most, but they are not a checklist. Sewing, a computer screen, a recipe card, road signs, faces across a room — if your vision is getting in the way of something you want to do, that counts.

What surgery actually involves

Treatments

Subspecialty depth, without leaving the Treasure Coast.

Most eye practices refer complex disease elsewhere. We built ours so the specialist you need already works here.

Cataracts & Lens Surgery

Premium cataract surgery under topical anesthesia, including the Light Adjustable Lens — the only implant that can be fine-tuned after surgery.

Cataract surgery

Oculofacial Surgery

Cosmetic eyelid surgery and brow lifting from a fellowship-trained oculofacial plastic surgeon, on staff since 2003 — plus functional eyelid surgery that insurance often covers.

Oculofacial surgery

LASIK & PRK

Bladeless IntraLase flaps and the VISX excimer laser with iDesign wavefront guidance, in our St. Lucie County refractive suite. Screening is free.

Laser vision correction

Medical Eye Care

Glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, dry eye, cornea and retina — each led by a fellowship-trained specialist.

Medical eye care

Aesthetics

Sciton BBL, Halo and TRL resurfacing, Botox and fillers — delivered by a practice whose surgeons work in the anatomy around the eye every day.

Aesthetics

Retina & Macular Degeneration

Fellowship-trained retina care, including Valeda light therapy — the first FDA-authorized treatment for vision loss from dry macular degeneration.

Retina & macular
Twenty-three years in one community

We built the practice we wanted our own families to use.

2003The year we opened, so that patients here would stop driving to Orlando and Miami for subspecialty care.
10Doctors under one name — eight ophthalmologists and two optometrists, across two offices.
3Operating rooms in our own single-specialty surgery center — AAAHC accredited, Medicare certified, eyes only.
4.9Average rating across more than 2,100 patient reviews.
Optical & dispensary

Finish what you came for, in one building.

Our optical has three opticians and a real range of frames, from simple to designer — plus a serious sunglasses selection for boaters, golfers and anyone who spends the day in Florida sun. Outside prescriptions are welcome, and we are always happy to adjust or repair your glasses whether we sold them or not.

Our dispensary fills prescription and over-the-counter eye medications before you leave. It saves you a trip, which matters more than it sounds when your eyes have just been dilated.

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Featured technology

The only lens you can fine-tune after surgery.

The Light Adjustable Lens is the only FDA-approved intraocular lens that can be customized after your cataract procedure. We implant the lens, let your eye heal, then adjust your vision with a series of painless light treatments until it matches the way you actually live.

It also allows something no other lens does: with the LAL, the interval between your first eye and your second can be as short as a few days.

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“I walked out of the surgery center seeing better than I had in years.”
Cataract patient, Vero Beach

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Find out whether it's time.

Schedule an evaluation at our Vero Beach or Fort Pierce office. Saturday appointments available in Vero Beach.