For Out-of-Town & Fly-In Patients
Patients travel from across the globe for complex scleral lens fittings at Cohenmehr Keratoconus Center.
Most fittings done in one week — one trip, no return flight
01The fly-in visit plan
Every trip is engineered to count.
Most fly-in scleral fittings are completed within one week, in one trip with no return flight. Tell us you’re traveling when you book: we scan on day one, have your free-form lenses made while you’re here, and dispense and train before you fly home. We plan for one trip; a second is the exception.
- Before you fly
- Records, prior maps and failed lenses reviewed ahead; a call settles what trip one can realistically include.
- Day one — map and evaluate
- Comprehensive evaluation, corneal imaging and the Eaglet ESP scleral map — hundreds of thousands of points — so your free-form lenses go into production the same day.
- Mid-week — lenses made
- Your custom lenses are manufactured on an expedited timeline while you enjoy LA, so nothing waits for a flight.
- Before you fly home
- Lenses dispensed, insertion and removal trained until routine, fit verified at the slit lamp. Refinements handled remotely with your home doctor when needed.
- After
- Refinements timed to your travel, and co-management with your home optometrist for the in-between.
02Getting here
Airports, address, parking.
- Flying commercial
- LAX is the closest major airport to the office. Hollywood Burbank (BUR), Long Beach (LGB) and Orange County (SNA) work well depending on your route.
- Private aviation
- Santa Monica Airport (SMO) serves private aircraft near the office.
- The office
- 12222 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025 — on Wilshire between Bundy and Centinela, right at the Santa Monica border. Free parking is on Wellesley Ave: driving west on Wilshire, turn left onto Wellesley and the entrance is right at the turn.
- Rideshare
- Drop at 12222 Wilshire Blvd; the entrance is at street level.
- Hours
- Mon 10am–5pm · Tue–Fri 8am–5pm — we time fly-in appointments around flights and traffic.
- Parking
- Free parking on Wellesley Ave, just south of Wilshire. Look for the “Retail Parking” sign.
03Where to stay
Base yourself on the Wilshire corridor.
Our eye clinic in Los Angeles sits on Wilshire at the Santa Monica border, so the easiest stays are the neighborhoods along the same line — our front desk keeps a current hotel shortlist; ask when you book.
- Santa Monica
- Ocean-side hotels and walkable evenings; one straight run east on Wilshire to the office.
- Westwood
- Hotels along Wilshire near UCLA, minutes east on the same boulevard.
- Brentwood
- Quieter stays just up San Vicente from the office.
- Beverly Hills
- Further east on Wilshire when the trip doubles as a getaway.
Making a weekend of it? We schedule fly-in visits early, so you can spend mornings in the chair and afternoons at the beach.
04Between visits
Distance care, without the distance problems.
- Photo check-ins and calls between trips: small questions never wait for a flight
- Co-management with your home optometrist: shared records, shared milestones
- Lens care and solution guidance that works wherever you live
- Honest triage: if something needs the chair, we say so and schedule around your travel
In network with VSP, EyeMed and many other vision plans — plans often cover part or all of medically necessary scleral lenses. We check benefits before you book a flight.
Read before you fly
The pages visiting patients use most.
Next step
Tell us you’re traveling. We’ll build the trip.
Book online and mention your city, or call 310-828-2010 — records first, clustered visits, and a plan that respects your flights.