Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD

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# Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD, Claremont: an eye care center in Claremont (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/claremont/dr-john-j-mcdermott-iii-md-claremont-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-23. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/claremont/dr-john-j-mcdermott-iii-md-claremont-ca

## In short

Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD is an eye care center in Claremont, CA. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 655 E Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (909) 624-8077 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 5.0 across 6 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Dr. John J. McDermott III is best known for his exceptional eye care services in Claremont, particularly as a trusted ophthalmologist with a strong local presence. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | October 22, 2026, 7:51 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Name | Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Address | 655 E Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (909) 624-8077 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 655 E Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |
| Links | Website | http://claremonteye.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Oct 22, 2026 |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

Dr. John J. McDermott III is best known for his exceptional eye care services in Claremont, particularly as a trusted ophthalmologist with a strong local presence.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Dr. John

Address: 655 E Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. Phone: (909) 624-8077. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked October 22, 2026 at 7:51 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Dr. John on its Google Business Profile: "655 E Foothill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## Reputation

5.0 average across 6 reviews: Google 6. (Confirmed, read October 22, 2026.)

The practice is distinguished by its focus on patient-centered care and successful long-term surgical outcomes. (AI guess, from 6 reviews.)


### What people like

- Thorough patient care
- Clean office environment
- Long-lasting surgical implants


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Dr. John found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Dr. John

Dr. John hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### what is the catch with Dr. John?

No answer yet


### do I need to leave early to find a space

No answer yet


### regulars here, who do you book with?

No answer yet


### is it weeks or months to get an appointment

No answer yet


### somewhere cheaper in Claremont that is not a risk?

No answer yet


### picking between the two, is Claremont Eye the safer bet?

No answer yet


### can I ask for numbing at Dr. John without it being weird?

No answer yet


### consult at Dr. John, what do I need to bring?

No answer yet


### going here on Saturday, what should I expect

No answer yet


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say

No answer yet


### does this place ever have cancellations

No answer yet


### best ophthalmologist in Claremont, CA

No answer yet


### planning a Saturday visit, is that a wasted trip

No answer yet


### how do I reach this place to sort something out?

No answer yet


### Turning up here for the first time, what happens?

No answer yet


### never been to Dr. John in Claremont, how does it go?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Dr. John, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### Aftercare at Dr. John, what does it involve?

No answer yet


### where does this place post updates

No answer yet


### Any medical supervision on site?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Dr. John

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Dr. John. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 22, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 25 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Claremont eye care centers run 25 to 46. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Dr. John scores 25, below the Claremont average of 36. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Dr. John |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 38 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 81 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 75 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about an eye care center

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place."


## How to choose an eye care center in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice.

- Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the California medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free.
- Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license.
- Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area.
- Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Dr. John if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Dr. John |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://claremonteye.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Claremont, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Dr. John is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Claremont, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Claremont: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/claremont/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Claremont: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/claremont


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Dr. John J. McDermott III, MD. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJlc5GYroxw4ARmRqLlegcnM4 (accessed Oct 22, 2026)