Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Policy Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To read our full Nondiscrimination Statement, click here.

Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Surgery

Treatments and Services

Services

  • Eye examinations
  • Referrals for routine and specialty contact lenses
  • Corneal topography
  • Corneal tomography
  • Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT)
  • Specular microscopy
  • B-Scan ultrasonography
  • Pachymetry
  • Slit lamp photography 

Treatments

  • Glasses prescriptions
  • Prescription eye medication management
  • Partial-thickness corneal transplantation (including DSAEK and DMEK)
  • Full-thickness corneal transplantation (including penetrating keratoplasty)
  • Anterior segment laser procedures
  • Corneal collagen cross-linking
  • Cataract surgery
  • Pterygium excision