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MANILA, Philippines -  What do Ai-Ai delas Alas, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Pops Fernandez, Marc Nelson, Luli Arroyo, Paeng Nepomuceno, Efren “Bata” Reyes, Eric Buhain, DJ Mo Twister, Dr. Vicki Belo, Sen. Joker Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos, have in common?

They all enjoy much improved vision, courtesy of state-of-the-art eye care medical services and optical equipment of the American Eye Center (AEC).

The center is manned by a team of respected eye experts who organized themselves as Associated Eye Specialists (AES) in 1987. Dr. Jack Arroyo Jr., chief executive officer of the AEC, is the pioneering LASIK surgeon in Asia. Dr. Benjamin Cabrera, chief operating officer and medical director of American Eye Cataract Center, is the president of the Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

To cope with a rapidly growing clientele, the Center recently opened its newest branch, American Eye Cataract Center and SPEX, at the fourth level of Greenbelt 5.

Among those who graced the event were Heart Evangelista, Dominic Ochoa, Ramon Christopher Gutierrez, Lito Pimentel, Efren “Bata” Reyes, Django Bustamante, Dr. Vicki Belo, former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Oscar Inocentes.

 Established in 1995, the American Eye Center holds the distinction of being the country’s premier ophthalmic laser center for the treatment of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Managed by the Associated Eye Specialists, the most experienced and longest-running Eye MD group in the Philippines, the center has the longest-running clinical experience in Southeast Asia with over 35,000 refractive procedures performed.