About the Doctor

Dr. Mitchell Cassel has been practicing Optometry since 1982, providing comprehensive eye examinations for the detection of eye diseases, prescribing eye glasses, fitting difficult contact lens patients and treating eye diseases with the use of therapeutic medication. He has both a therapeutic and diagnostic drug license.

Dr. Mitchell Cassel is one of the leading prosthetic contact lens specialists in the eye care profession. He has a private practice in New York City where he helps many prosthetic patients referred throughout the country and internationally. In addition he has lectured extensively on prosthetic lenses, been a consultant to leading contact lens companies including Vistakon, Wesley Jessen, Ciba and Coopervision. He continues to travel throughout the world to help find better contact lens materials for prosthetic and cosmetic use.

The doctor received his degrees from Lehigh University and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He has received additional education in Optometry and Contact Lens technology including therapeutic and diagnostic credentialing.

In addition Dr. Cassel lectures and writes extensively in the eye care professional community on the topic of cosmetic and prosthetic contact lenses. He is a consultant to many of the leading contact lens companies including Johnsons and Johnson, CIBA and CooperVision.

Dr. Cassel is also one of the leading providers of special effect contact lenses to the motion picture, television and video industries. He has worked on over 750 productions, helping the actors compliment their makeup using unusual contact lenses. Some of the effects that you might notice range from natural eye color changes, scarred, diseased, blood shot, dilated pupils, aged to supernatural mirrored eyes.