Get the Latest in Vision Care From Doctor's Eye Clinic

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Doctor's Eye Clinic has always looked at eye care with a very regional view.

Now, in addition to serving residents of Orange and the Golden Triangle, Doctor's Eye Clinic has specifically absorbed the patients from Bridge City Optical.

Unable to reopen after Hurricane Rita damaged their building, Bridge City Optical closed its doors and patients are now being seen by Dr. Alan D. Boyle and Dr. Peter Cass of Doctor's Eye Clinic.

"We are excited about being able to offer services to these patients," Dr. Cass said. "We are committed to providing the same high quality lenses, frames and services that Bridge City Optical offered."

Doctor's Eye Clinic is working hard to integrate patients' files, which were not damaged in the hurricane, into their system. In the meantime, all Bridge City Optical patients can get eye exams, prescriptions filled and copies of their medical records in the Orange office of Doctor's Eye Clinic.

Doctor's Eye Clinic will also honor all safety plans for safety eyewear with area companies.

In addition to the new Bridge City patients, Doctor's Eye Clinic is still serving the needs of the Golden Triangle.

Office staff also wanted to let the area know, especially some of their older patients, that the original practice owner, Dr. Milford Maynard, will be available April 25 and 27, and a halfday April 28.

Having picked up a lot of new patients who evacuated from Hurricane Katrina, Doctor's Eye Clinic has stayed busy. And it's easy to see why.

Boyle and Cass aren't your average eye doctors. True, they can treat anything from far-sightedness to fitting you for glasses, but they each focus on a special field of eye care to create custom, personalized service for each patient.

Dr. Boyle was graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University and received his Doctor of Optometry at the University of Houston. He married a Beaumont girl and settled down in the Golden Triangle.

"I was interested in a profession that allowed me to do patient medical care in a family practice setting," he said. "We take care of all ages, in all realms of eye care and do everything non-surgically related to the eye."

Boyle's emphasis in the practice is on children, specifically with how vision relates to learning problems children might have.

"I practice behavioral optometry," he said. "I look at the visual system as a whole and figure out what part of the system isn't working."

For example, a child might not be able to focus on their schoolwork, suffer from headaches or eyestrain and have problems comprehending what they're reading.

"Eighty percent of the learning process is visual," Boyle said. "The visual process is an extremely important part of learning so we try to work to correct that."

Such special care is important for each patient, Boyle stressed. "One thing we really try to work on is giving each patient individualized attention," he said. "You're not going to come in here and get only two minutes with the doctor. We sit down, talk to you and meet everyone's problems individually."

Dr. Cass grew up in Beaumont and was graduated from the University of Houston where he received his Doctor of Optometry degree. He focuses on contact lenses and problems with dry eye.

Cass can fit all hard and soft contact lenses as well as specialty lenses, such as corneal moldings.

Corneal molding lenses are hard contact lenses that people who suffer from mild to moderate nearsightedness can wear only at night. These lenses reshape the surface of the eye to temporarily correct the sight problem. Then the contacts are removed in the morning and, depending on the prescription and the patient, the patient may be able to go from a day up to a week without having to wear corrective lenses again.

"This is great for teens who play sports," Cass said. "It's also proven to slow down the progression of nearsightedness."

He also works to correct keratoconus, a condition where the cornea bulges out in a cone shape and regular glasses or contacts don't work. Something else Cass focuses on is dry eye. "A lot of contact lens patients suffer from this," he said.

He can treat this with a new prescription drug on the market. He also can fashion punctal plugs, which prevent tears and moisture from draining away from the eye too quickly.

In addition, both doctors can work with bifocals, stigmatisms or cosmetic contact lenses and take care of anything generally related to the eye.

They accept most major medical and vision insurances. Doctor's Eye Clinic is located at 2401 16th St. They're open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.

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