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Animal Eye Center of NJ

Eye Surgery

The Animal Eye Center of NJ features a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist with years of training and experience in specialized eye surgery. We are fully equipped to handle even the most high-risk patients. Our advanced, state-of-the-art equipment will provide your pet with a quality procedure that mirrors what you might experience in a human hospital. Surgical procedures that involve the eye(s) are typically performed on an outpatient basis and more often than not, your pet will be able to rejoin you at home the very same day. We do everything possible to minimize discomfort before, during, and after a procedure. With pain medication and rest, your pet should be feeling much better in no time. Numerous different surgical procedures are performed at the Animal Eye Center of NJ. The most common procedures are:

Lens Surgery

  • Cataract removal by phacoemulsification with foldable intraocular lens implantation

  • Lens luxation surgery

Glaucoma Surgery

  • Laser surgery (cyclophotocoagulation) with anterior chamber shunt placement

  • Pharmacological ciliary body ablation

  • Eye removal (enucleation) with or without orbital prosthesis placement

  • Cosmetic intraocular prosthesis placement

Eyelid Surgery

  • Entropion repair

  • Distichia electroepilation and cryosurgery

  • Ectopic cilia resection and cryosurgery

  • Reconstructive blepharoplasty

  • Eyelid tumor resection and/or cryosurgical removal

Corneal Surgery

  • Conjunctival graft surgery

  • Corneoconjunctival transposition

  • Superficial keratectomy and penetrating keratoplasty

Third Eyelid Surgery

  • Repair of the prolapsed gland of the third eyelid (cherry eye)

Laser Surgical Procedures

  • Cyclophotocoagulation for glaucoma

  • Epibulbar melanoma treatment