Eye Center of Texas

Referred here to see an opthomologist only to wait almost 1.5 hours and find out that there was no opthomologist in the house, they were on holiday.
My emergency situation was in attempt to avoid a $ 10,000 ER visit as I was assured by the first doctor I saw that would occur and possibly no results. The second doctor did not feel comfortable diagnosing a retinal tear or orbital fracture but made the referral and sent the paperwork in advance of my arrival. Both ODs that I saw were professional and competent, explained I had done a great job on triage for myself.
Three hours drive time, another three hours in their office, news was good that I would not have to drive to the Medical Center for a CT scan.
Family member had seen Dr. Wade 6 years ago and was pleased with his work. Failed to associate that situation until I arrived.
Accidents happen and in my case will work hard to not bash my eye while multi-​tasking, Christmas perfection overload.
Rolling profit center.

I had the best experience at the Eye Center of Texas in Bellaire when receiving my LASIK eye surgery in late January 2014. I read many reviews that the patient questions were not answered, the staff were not very «warm and welcoming» and felt like they were rushed in/​out like cattle. Though the process seemed to go by very quickly, I did not feel any of the things previous patients experienced. I thought all the doctors and staff was very kind and answered any questions or concerns I had. I would recommend the Eye Center of Texas in Bellaire to anyone I know who was planning to have the LASIK procedure done. AND I still love that I do not have to deal with contacts or glasses anymore! YAH!

I had LASIK done at Eye Center of Texas a few weeks ago, and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Before then, I was somewhere around –5.00 in both eyes. If you’re unfamiliar with eyeglass prescriptions, that’s more or less legally blind. I couldn’t see more than a foot in front of my face, and even that was a strain.
Fed up with everything, I finally decided to give in and schedule a consultation. I really don’t think I could’ve chosen a better place than ECOT. From the very beginning, everyone there – from the technicians all the way to my surgeon, Dr. Mayo – went above and beyond to make sure I had a great experience and was nothing less than completely comfortable. There are obviously plenty of options for who you choose to operate on your eyes, but I would confidently put my experience at ECOT over any other offerings. From top to bottom, everyone there seemed to genuinely care about my well-​being.
The procedure itself was ridiculously easy. For anyone concerned with pain or discomfort, there’s no need to worry. This is coming from someone who dreads getting any shots at the doctor. I’d equate the procedure to probably a routine checkup at the dentist in terms of comfort (You also have the option to take a valium to relax). Once the procedure starts, you’re in and out in less than 10 minutes! After that, you go home and close your eyes for the day (Hooray ZZZQuil!). The next day is pretty much a whole new world – at least in my experience. I now have ²⁰⁄₁₅ vision in both eyes!
You might be asking yourself «Why such a glowing and thorough Unilocal review?» I rarely bother with writing reviews of any sort, but this isn’t a plate of spaghetti or an oil change. These are my eyes – things that I use literally every waking moment of every day. I feel like it’s absolutely necessary to trust and feel comfortable with the people who hold your vision in their hands, and the folks at ECOT earned mine and then some.

Day of surgery:
The nurse put in about 15 eyedrops in each eye and then gave me a valium, which almost K.O.ed me: O I was ushered into the OR and Dr. Wade first performed the eye surgery on one eye and then the other. The operation was honestly a blur. I was then led into a post-​op room and monitored for an hour, given snacks and wheeled out. I definitely K. (O.ed afterward and slept for a long time.
Day after:
Came in for the first post-​op. The optometrist (a resident) — Dr. Moderhack — told me I had ²⁰⁄₂₀ vision and cleared me for driving! Had some halos but he said that was normal. So impressed that the results happened so quickly.
Week after:
Had another post-​op appt with Dr. May (another optometry resident). I had ²⁰⁄₁₅ vision! This is definitely a 180 from my previous horrible vision (–8.5).
Bottom line — the staff is incredibly nice and supportive, and Visian ICL has a lifetime warranty in case you need future touch-​ups. This warranty lasts even if you leave the country or state.
Overall, I enjoyed my experience a lot and recommended it to a friend who also wants to get LASIK/​Visian as well! =D Thank you, Eye Center of Texas!

This has to be the worst doctors office I have been to in a long time. I have a rare eye condition and was referred to the Eye Center of Texas by a friend who is an optometrist. Their staff isn’t friendly and can be rude. I have been going here for 6+ months to monitor my condition and every time they make wait over 2.5 hours with my eyes dilated. I have complained to the office manager about the wait time and they just made excuses for the doctor (unexpected surgeries, some patients require extra long visits, etc). I asked them why I wasn’t informed upon my arrival that the doctor was busy in surgery and asked if I wanted to reschedule. They had no nice response and just said I should try to come in first thing in the morning. I am only still going here one more time because I had a test done and need my results read to me by my doctor. If you are looking for a good doctor for your eye care needs… go somewhere else. Last time my appointment was at 3:15 pm. I didn’t see the doctor until 5:45 pm. Isn’t that just sad? Bad service all around! And Dr. Stewart hasn’t helped me at all to figure out my options or help cure my vision.
This place needs to clean up their act… unprofessional, poor service, rude and inconsiderate of my time!

Only go here if you don’t value your time. The office called me the day before my appointment to see if I wouldn’t mind coming in an hour early (7:15am) because the doctor was starting earlier. I had to rearrange my insulin shots/​breakfast (type 1 diabetes), and I canceled two meetings, but I thought for once, I will get in and out of here quickly.
I arrived at 7:15 and the door was locked. They finally did open, and after THIRTY minutes, they decided to call me up my name. Not to take me back to my exam, but to get my payment. They explained that they didn’t have enough techs to accommodate all the patients, but she couldn’t explain why people who had appointments after me were getting called back. This is the 3^rd year that i’ve been to this clinic, and I am usually there for at least 2 hours. I completely understand that later appointments tend to run late, but there is no excuse for first appointments. I will not be rescheduling and will definitely be finding a new clinic that has a little more respect for their patients.

I give one star Bc 3.5 hours after my appt time… I’m still waiting to see the specialist. Still don’t know what’s wrong… and have spent most of my time in a jam packed waiting room. Longest appt of my life.

I had my Visian procedure done here because my eye doctor recommended this place. He had nothing but great things to say. I am giving them 3 stars since my surgery went well and I can see great!
However, if I could do it over I would go somewhere else. Somewhere where you are treated like a patient. They are so great until you sign that contract, then customer service goes out the window. They also lied to me and told me Dr. Wade is one of the only two doctors in the Houston area who performs this surgery, which is a lie. I trusted them and signed the contract.
They scheduled ALL my pre appointments and my first post appointment wrong including my surgery day! How do you do that?
You never meet with the same doctor, different ones constantly and NONE of them are on the same page. One told me I cannot wear contacts before surgery, one told me to do so. Scary when you are about to have eye surgery. Also you do not get to have a conversation before surgery. He goes right into surgery, which is scary. The doctors also told me post surgery I needed LASIK to «crisp my eyes up» and when I brought this up to Dr. Wade he asked me why I would want that and all I could say is that is what your staff recommends.
Michelle’s comment right before this is very similar to how my experience was. It felt like you were in an assembly line.

I had my Lasik procedure performed at the Eye Center of Texas by Dr. Wade. I was referred by the doctors at Exquisite Eye Care (Dr. Tran & Dr. Ngyuen). Overall the experience was ok, the surgery itself was very easy and painless but there are improvements to the pre-​op process that I think could be made, though this could heavily depend on your optometrist and how often they send patients to Dr. Wade. I’d say the whole process is very efficient, but not very individualized. Before you agree to anything be sure you have all the necessary forms, and prescriptions for BOTH Zymaxid and Durazol in hand.
2-​weeks pre-​op:
I was instructed to wear only glasses.
1.5 weeks pre-​op:
My eyes were dilated and tests were done. For whatever reason, my eyes did not react well to dilation — I stayed somewhat dilated for about 48 hours (not normal) so this part kind of sucked for me.
4 days pre-​op:
Visited ECoT to do some tests. The staff seemed a little uncaring, just going through the motions, not really explaining each machine they were using or what it told them about your eyes.
Saw a doctor, but not Dr. Wade who would actually be performing my surgery. The doctor was rushing quite a bit. I got to ask a few questions but he told me that there were several patients waiting so he wouldn’t be going in to much detail and that the surgery counselor would go through everything.
Saw Steven the surgery counselor. I asked him about the side effects of the surgery and he told me to read the non-​disclosure form (gee, thanks jerk). I asked him if the warranty still covers you if you move out of state and he said no, so buyer beware. I was informed that I would need to start using Zymaxid drops the next day and handed me a prescription. I would’ve really liked to have gotten this prescription a few days prior to have it on hand, but I let it go. Be prepared for sticker shock because the drops came out to be $ 112 at the pharmacy! Luckily I was able to get some from my optometrist at no charge. Be aware though (because no one told me), this bottle has to last you 3 days before the surgery and 6 days after so don’t go nuts!
3 days pre-​op:
Using Zymaxid drops. They sting like crazy and leave a horrible taste in your mouth. Yes, you read that right. TASTE in your MOUTH.
Surgery day:
Get there around 7:45a and the receptionist asks to see all of my signed forms. Well, Steven said my optometrist would give them to me and my optometrist said the ECoT would give them to me so I was stuck without forms. Luckily they had copies so I read through them and signed. To me it’s weird that they would rely on other people give out their own forms.
The surgery counselor called me back to take care of payment and he gave me a prescription for some steroid drops (Durazol) that I would need to start using right after surgery. Now I was mad. You’re about to do surgery on my eyes that’s supposed to incapacitate me for the entire day, and you give me a prescription to go fill afterwards? The steroid drops are $ 40 when you have the coupon/​debit card they give you and you might need a refill so be sure to keep the card. I asked other patients about this and they said they had gotten the prescription from their optometrist beforehand so the drops were waiting for them at home. Grr.
Back to the main waiting room. I was called back to an individual room, given booties and a cap, a valium/​IB profin and told to wait in a secondary waiting room outside of the OR with other patients. The same doctor that had seen me the other day gave the four of us his speech about the procedure and the post-​op care. Not very personal… at all.
The whole thing moved like an assembly line. Everyone sat in the waiting room together waiting for their name to be called. They just moved all of us through one right after the other. Like I said, very efficient (I think they made about $ 25K in about an hour) but not personal.
Once you get in there, there is no time to be nervous or scared. These technicians/​assistants have their routine down pat. They have you lay down, numb your eyes, put a clamp on one eye and put a suction cup device on. Once suction is applied you go blind — and that is when they make the cut for the flap which takes about 30 seconds. Then they repeat the process with the other eye. Then they move the table over and they have you stare at a moving red dot while they remove your flap. Once the flap is removed everything is very blurry and they have you stare at a green dot that looks like a big green light. They turn the overhead lights off so all you can focus on is the green light and you hear a bunch of clicks. There was a smell — but it’s no worse than getting your teeth drilled. They repeat the process with your other eye and BOOM, you’re done. Things are blurry right away so don’t expect to see perfectly.
They send you back to your individual room, check that your flap is secure, and send you on your way.

Highly recommend for people with chronic eye issues like myself. They have a large team of optometrists, so there’s a lot of flexibility with appointments. The ophtomologists are highly trained and experts of the field. I had lasik and ICLs done by Dr. Wade. I’m about a year out of my surgery now, and my vision is better than it has ever been. They also have physicians on call on the weekends for emergencies (which is extremely important if you are planning on having surgery).

: Quick Review :
Great friendly people! Multiple doctors performing your exams. They double check each others work. They go the extra mile. Conservative doctors. Dr. Wade performs the surgeries. All the doctors are very friendly and helpful. =)
: Details of My Experience :
Research: I googled looking for well experienced LASIK ophthalmologist in Houston area and Dr. Wade was one of the names that came up. I checked out his site and also checked the online medical board. I was interested in the Visian ICL as I was not a candidate for LASIK. I am a candidate for PRK but opted for Visian ICL because it’s reversible and supposedly has better results. The cost is slightly more. The cost is $ 3295 per eye and includes LASIK if needed. Dr. Wade ranks as one of the leading Visian ICL specialists in Texas on
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INITIAL VISIT: The overall staff is very friendly and helpful. An assistant name Alethia assisted me with initial screenings and measurements. She was very friendly throughout the process. After that, Dr. Holt performed some testing to get my prescription. He was pretty cool and has a nice sense of humor.
A technician later came to dilate my eyes. I sat around and waited for a bit. A second doctor named Dr. Allee came in to re exam my eyes and re performed the testing for my measurements. Sadly, I didn’t perform well on my exam. Dr. Allee asked me to wait another 20 minutes to re examine my eyes. But my eyes were still ehhhhh. * I like how they double check. * My eyes were still sensitive and Dr. Allee wanted me to come back after a few days to get my eyes re examined for my measurements. I was a little =(but I appreciated and respected Dr. Allee’s opinion.
SECOND VISIT: A few days, Dr. Bachman measured my eyes and performed some testings. She consulted with Dr. Wade of her findings and I was a go. Yay!!! Moments later, Dr. Wade performed YPI on both of my eyes. It’s when he lasers the eyes to create holes in them. Why? Drainage. This is for preparation done a week before the Visian ICL surgery. Here’s how it works. The assistant put drops in your eyes to help numb it. A little while later, Dr. Wade comes in and uses a machine to laser your eye. The first laser is probably the most uncomfortable one because you’re not sure what to expect. It feels like quick electrical shocks on the eye. Yikes, I know. The lasering takes about a minute per eye. Your vision will be blurred because of the ointments but they’ll help you wash it out and give you artificial tear drops. Your vision will go back to normal about an hour later.
THIRD VISIT (SURGERY DAY): Dressed warm because the operation room is about 66 degrees. The first hour spent is sitting around getting all these eye drops into your eye. It’s 4 rounds of 4 drops per eye. I asked them to put more just in case they missed a spot because I surely didn’t want to feel anything. but I was kindly informed that the drops provided will be enough. Oh, on the second round, they’ll give you a pill that makes your drowsy. So use the bathroom if you need to before you take the pill. When you’re in the operation room, you’ll be nicely prepped and you’ll be in and out but mostly out.
During the surgery at the beginning when Dr. Wade was inserting the lens into my right eye, I could see what was going on. Sounds crazy but it’s slightly true. I couldn’t see details but I remember it looking like a bunch of cells moving around. Kind of like what you would see if you look through a microscope. You can also see lights, but you won’t see details of your surrounding.
After surgery, I was able to see but it was blurry. Came home and passed out. My eyes were sensitive to bright lights. I had halos and sometimes doubles when looking into lights. Eyes were swollen and it ached.
Day after surgery, vision got better. Halos and doubles decreased. Swelling went down and eyes didn’t ache as much. I went to my post op check up. Everything looks fine.
Two days after surgery, swelling went down a lot and no more aching. Vision got even better.
Days later… vision keeps getting better, but sometimes, I can feel my eyes strain when I try to focus too hard and for too long. Also notice that my vision changes but I’m thinking my eyes are still recovering.
Overall, wonderful experience. I love being able to see without glasses and contacts. The people here have made my experience easy, well, and successful.
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