Five stars is only a beginning. The staff at OCC are the absolute best. We have been coming to…read moreOCC. for about 5 years, and the desk staff have never been anything but great. If anyone ever tells you that Dr. Thimons is the doctor to see for your eye issues, don't play around. This is by far the most caring Doctor I've ever met. My wife had starting having issues with dry eye, and eye infections. At one point she had a scratch on her eye, that again, got infected, and was not only painful, but it was interfering with her vision. The infection was not responding to normal treatment, and she is allergic to the most commonly used medication for eye infections. Our eye doctor recommended we see Dr. Thimons, who's office is on the other end of the state from us. 1. Eyes are too important to be cheap about, and 2. We are not opposed to traveling. We met Dr. Thimons and his personality was a instant match. He was able to tell us what was going on with the eye, and what he wanted to do in language we could easily understand and at no time did we ever feel he was talking down to us, nor did it even feel like he was dumbing it down. He was matter of fact, direct and had a very comforting manner about him. Things didn't go too well, and her vision was deteriating, and even though we were all but panicking, Dr. Thimons remained calm, and mentioned options to us, and consulted with another doctor, Dr. Stein, and came up with a potential solution. At one point, Dr. Stein stitched a membrain into my wife's eyeball, and sealed her eyelid, as the eye movement, even with a patch was irritating the scratch, preventing it from healing. During the treatments, the doctors had been mentioning her cataracts, but predicted 5 years or so before they would need attention (surgery). The eye finally healed, and the infection was gone. Nothing to do now but follow-up appointments every 6 months with Dr. Thimons. After 3 or 4 such appointments, my wife mentioned that she felt it was getting more difficult seeing, and it was like looking through sheer curtains. Dr. Thimons showed me through the scope, what was going on, and her cornea was pretty much gray. The eye that had the ulcer, scratch and infection now had scar tissue right in her field of vision. It was decided that she needed to have the cataract surgery sooner, rather then later. At this point, her left eyes vision was so bad that she could not make out the large E on the vision chart, basically 20/250, or blind. Dr. Stein did the surgeries, 2 weeks between each eye. After the second surgery, her right eye is at 20/20 with no glasses or contacts, and her left is 20/25, again, no glasses or contacts. The surgery was performed at NEWVISION CATARACT CENTER in Norwalk. Another great place. Basically, Drs Thimons and Stein saved my wife's eye, and totally restored her vision. She has been wearing glasses or contacts since I met her in 1976. Today, she wears neither, and she is so excited at how well she can see, she gets giddy. Since we started seeing Drs Thimons and Stein, we have moved. It now takes 2 hours to get to their closest office, and nearly 3 hours to get to the Fairfield office, and it's well worth the trip. The only issue now is, her remembering she doesn't need to put on her glasses when she gets up every morning.

Dr Bosjolli Is a very knowledgeable retina specialist and…read morevery informative. She's very kind and her staff are excellent they are very accommodating especially because the visits could be lengthy. They do a lot of testing right on premise. I have macular degeneration dry and also had a surgery by another Dr and it triggered my confidence to worsen . They were very empathetic to my situation. They have a large clean office with a multitude of drs corne retinal ophthalmologist etc Definitely recommend this group Thanks Chris M

Excellent service and professional staff & environment! So convenient to the Cheshire/Hamden…read morecommunity

The staff is useless. Got fitted for GLASSES. Turns out on day to pick up three weeks later only…read moreframes. What? Insurance will pay frames today and lenses in a year. And that is supposed to help me see how? Idiot who fitted me did not inform me at the time and then tried to wiggle out of a HUGE error by lying. Did nothing to help me. Got it worked out with insurance, took script went down the road to a different place abd hame franes with actual lenses in them otherwise known as GLASSES. The rotten attitude and disregard for the patient or willingness to try to help turned my stomach. Too bad cause Dr is great but NOT WORTH THE BS.

Excellent eye doctor. Caring, professional, to the point. Have been going to Dr Shafik for the last…read more25 years. Totally trust him. Excellent office staff

Dr. Shafik is by far one of the worst Ophthalmologists I have ever had the displeasure of…read moreencountering. This man has no bedside manner, is gruff, doesn't explain anything to you, and has zero compassion. When he diagnosed me with severe cataracts 9 months ago, because I'm relatively young, I was shocked and became emotional, mostly due to the fear we naturally have when someone tells you that you need surgery on your eyes. And THAT infuriated him, which made it worse for me. Guess he forgot about the Hippocratic Oath. No doctor should behave like Dr. Shafik. Find another doctor like I did at the Eye Care Group (Dr. Kostina is wonderful) in Waterbury or wherever you feel comfortable. It makes a huge difference having a doctor who actually cares not only about your eyes, but about you as a person. And your fears about cataract surgery? It wasn't that bad with the right doctor!

Anyone know how to get in touch with the office?? They are apparently closed and I need to get my…read morerecords! Thanks in advance!

I had my Lasik done here and had an amazing experience. Dr. Gold made me feel at ease and he…read moreexplained everything clearly. The office staff are also first class. They make you feel very comfortable with the whole thing. I can see without my contacts and glasses. It's the best investment ever. This is day 5 after the surgery and I can already see the improvement. It's painless and it's very little risk. You should get it done if you have been thinking about it. It is really life changing.