# MEC Eye Specialists, Lakewood CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/lakewood/mec-eye-specialists-lakewood-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-30.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/lakewood/mec-eye-specialists-lakewood-ca

## In short

MEC Eye Specialists is an eye care center in Lakewood, CA. Its AI Score is 23 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 5750 Downey Ave Ste 101, Lakewood, CA 90712, USA |
| Phone | (844) 211-5462 |
| Rating | 2.8 across 21 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 30, 2026 |


## 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 | Address | 5750 Downey Ave Ste 101, Lakewood, CA 90712, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 5750 Downey Ave Ste 101, Lakewood, CA 90712 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | MEC Eye Specialists | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (844) 211-5462 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Cataract surgery | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma treatment | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | http://www.meceyespecialists.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting MEC Eye Specialists

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Address: 5750 Downey Ave Ste 101, Lakewood, CA 90712, USA. Phone: (844) 211-5462. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Downey & South SW | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| South at Downey | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| 5750 Downey Ave Garage | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| Downey & St. Pancratius NE | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Starbucks Coffee Company | Coffee shop | 2 min walk |
| South & Downey NW | Bus stop | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

2.8 average across 21 reviews: Google 21. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

MEC Eye Specialists is noted for its skilled doctors but suffers from significant issues with wait times and customer service. (AI guess, from 21 reviews.)


### What people like

- Kindness of staff


### What people do not like

- Long wait times
- Poor customer service
- Disorganized appointment scheduling
- Unprofessional staff interactions


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 2 of the 40 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Booksy | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Not listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Fresha | Not listed |
| Groupon | Not listed |
| Healthgrades | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Houzz | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MD.com | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| NPI No. | Not listed |
| Porch | Not listed |
| Psychology Today | Not listed |
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| RealSelf | Not listed |
| Sharecare | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Vagaro | Not listed |
| Vitals | Not listed |
| WebMD | Not listed |
| Wellness.com | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |
| Zocdoc | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### bad experiences at MEC Eye Specialists, anyone?


### which one, this place or Marvin Isaac Gordon?


### people keep recommending MEC Eye Specialists, what for?


### the good stuff about MEC Eye Specialists, what is it?


### who is actually holding the needle at MEC Eye Specialists?


### any last minute appts at MEC Eye Specialists?


### anywhere cheaper than this place in Lakewood that is still good?


### parking at MEC Eye Specialists, where does everyone put the car?


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### anything I should sort out before a consult here?


### last update from here was when?


### best ophthalmology clinic in Lakewood


### Are the hours on Google right for this place?


### can I ask for numbing at MEC Eye Specialists without it being weird?


### services here, what do people go in for?


### how much is a first visit around here


## What AI gets wrong about MEC Eye Specialists

We ask Gemini, ChatGPT and Perplexity about MEC Eye Specialists. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 9, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 0 Laser Eye Center | 5750 Downey Ave Ste 101, Lakewood, CA 90712, USA |


## The AI Score: 23 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Eye care centers on the registry run 19 to 73. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. MEC Eye Specialists scores 23. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | MEC Eye Specialists |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 40 | 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 | 6 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 55 | 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. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 67 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 56 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 28 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

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

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## 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 MEC Eye Specialists |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MEC Eye Specialists | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.meceyespecialists.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Lakewood, California | City | #city |  | City MEC Eye Specialists is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

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


### Lists

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


### Nearby

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


### Every list

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


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ__8vLuQy3YARyAD_jDq3Vv0 (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 9, 2026; Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)