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Campbell Cunningham Laser Center

Led by Dr. McMillin • Dr. Sollenberger
Proudly serving East Tennessee Campbell Cunningham Laser Center, founded by board-certified Ophthalmologists Philip D.

Clear Vision Solutions
Knoxville’s first LASIK & advanced vision correction center — helping patients see life more clearly with leading-edge technology and personalized care. Campbell, M.D. and Leslie B. Cunningham, M.D., provides state-of-the-art Blade-Free Custom LASIK. The center, the first in the area of its kind, is part of a 60-year tradition in the caring of the eyes of East Tennesseans.

08/27/2026

PRK has a reputation for being the slower option, and we are not going to talk around it. Surface healing takes longer than LASIK. Vision can be blurry and shifting for several days, and it may keep sharpening for weeks after that. That is the honest version, and you should hear it from us before you hear it anywhere else.

Here is why patients still choose it. PRK creates no corneal flap. For someone whose corneas run thinner, or who spends real time in contact sports, in the water, or in a job where a flap is worth thinking about, that structural difference outweighs a slower start.

The timeline is also something you can plan around. Late summer into fall, with lake season winding down, is an easier window than the middle of June. We would rather you go in knowing exactly what the first two weeks feel like than be surprised by them. If PRK came up in a consultation a while back and you set it aside, you can start that conversation again at (865) 588-3937.

08/25/2026

It is a frustrating thing to be told. Your reading vision has changed. You are buying drugstore readers in three-packs and leaving a pair in every room. Distance is not quite what it used to be either. And the answer you get is, essentially, wait.

There is a whole group in the middle, often mid forties through sixties, whose natural lens has stiffened enough to affect near vision but has not clouded enough for anyone to call it a cataract yet. LASIK reshapes the cornea, and in this case the cornea is not the problem. So the recommendation defaults to patience.

Refractive lens exchange works on the lens itself. The natural lens is replaced with an implant chosen for the range you need, which also means a cataract will not form in that implanted lens later on. It is not the right answer for everyone, and it takes a thorough evaluation to know whether it fits. But if you have been told to wait, the question worth asking is whether your lens, rather than your cornea, is what has actually changed. Call (865) 588-3937 and we can measure it and tell you.

08/20/2026

There is a version of a day at Dollywood where you are present for all of it. And there is a version where you spend a good part of it managing your eyes.

Sunglasses traded back for regular glasses in line. A contact sliding sideways on a ride, so the next twenty minutes go to blinking it back into place. Someone hands you a phone to take the picture, and you tilt your head to find the right part of the lens.

None of that ruins a day. It just quietly takes pieces out of it.

When patients come back and tell us their vision correction was worth doing, whether that was LASIK in their thirties, an implantable lens for a prescription too strong for LASIK, or a new lens after cataract surgery, they almost never lead with the numbers. They do not talk about the diopters they started with.

They talk about watching a grandchild reach the top of a hill without hunting for the right pair of glasses first. A first day of school they saw clearly from the driveway. A Friday evening on Douglas Lake where nothing had to be taken out, rinsed, and put back in. That is the part worth protecting, and whenever you want to talk about what it would take, our number is (865) 588-3937.

08/18/2026

Most people assume vision correction means reshaping the cornea, and for plenty of patients it does. But EVO ICL works differently. A thin, biocompatible lens is placed inside the eye, in front of your natural lens, and no corneal tissue is removed at all.

Leaving the cornea untouched has real consequences down the line. The lens can be removed if your needs change later, and other options stay available to you in the future. For someone in their late twenties or thirties with a high prescription, corneas on the thinner side, or dry eye that makes LASIK a harder conversation, that flexibility is often the entire reason EVO ICL comes up in the first place.

We would rather think about your vision in decades than in single procedures, and sometimes the best choice is the one that keeps the most doors open. If you have been told before that you are not a candidate for vision correction, that answer may have been about one specific procedure rather than all of them. It is worth calling (865) 588-3937 to find out whether EVO ICL changes anything for you.

08/13/2026

People put this off for years, and a lot of the time it is not the procedure they are avoiding. It is not knowing what they are walking into.

So here is what the appointment actually involves. We map the surface of your corneas and measure how thick they are. We check your tear film, because dry eye affects both comfort and results, and it can be treated on its own. We look at your prescription history to see whether it has held steady. We ask what you do all day, because someone who swims four mornings a week and someone who reads spreadsheets for nine hours need different things from their eyes. Then we sit down and tell you what we found.

Sometimes the answer is that a procedure is not a good idea right now, and we will say so. Sometimes the answer is that the option you were told no to years ago is no longer the only option, because the list is longer than it used to be. Either way you leave with information, not a contract, and nobody here is going to pressure you into scheduling anything. If you have been curious for a while, this is the low-stakes first step, and it starts with a call to (865) 588-3937.

08/11/2026

Cataract surgery gets described like a repair job. Take out the cloudy lens, put in a clear one, get the view back. That is true as far as it goes. But it skips the part patients tell us afterward they wish they had understood sooner: the lens that goes in is the lens you will be looking through for the rest of your life.

So the real question is less "when should I have this done" and more "what do I want to be able to do afterward." Read a menu on Market Square without holding it at arm's length. Check a text on the porch without hunting for readers. Drive back from Cades Cove after the light drops and feel comfortable the whole way.

Some lenses correct distance only. Some are built to give you a usable range from near through far. Some address astigmatism at the same time. None of them is automatically the best one, because the right answer depends entirely on how you actually spend your days. That conversation takes longer than the surgery does, and it is worth every minute. Our office can walk you through the lens options if you call (865) 588-3937.

08/06/2026

There is a specific kind of Saturday coming back to Knoxville. The city turns orange. Traffic slows to a crawl by mid morning. And somewhere around kickoff you are shoulder to shoulder with a hundred thousand people who all want exactly the same thing.

Here is the part nobody puts on a poster. August in Tennessee is humid, and glasses fog on the walk in, then slide down your nose by the second quarter. Contacts dry out, and the solution is sitting in the car, a mile away, uphill. You end up spending the fourth quarter aware of your eyes instead of watching the field.

LASIK is not really about football. It is about the running list of moments you would rather not spend managing your vision, and game day just happens to be an easy one to picture. Go Vols, and enjoy the season however you are watching it. If the fogging-up part has you curious, give us a call at (865) 588-3937 and we can talk through whether LASIK is a fit for your eyes.

08/04/2026

The eyes you have in your thirties are not the eyes you will have in your fifties, and they are not the eyes you will have in your seventies. Your corneas change shape. The natural lens inside each one stiffens, and eventually clouds. Your tear film thins out. All of it on its own timeline, mostly without asking your permission first.

That is worth saying out loud, because vision correction usually gets talked about as a single event. One procedure, one before and after, done. In practice it looks more like a handful of decisions spread across decades. Someone might have LASIK in their early thirties, deal with dry eye in their forties, look at a lens-based option in their late fifties, and have cataract surgery in their seventies. Different decades, different tools, one continuous set of eyes.

Which means the genuinely useful thing is not choosing whichever procedure sounds most advanced this year. It is having your eyes measured and understood by people who will still be around to notice what changed since last time. We have been doing that in East Tennessee for more than sixty years. If it has been a while since anyone looked closely at your eyes, that alone is a good enough reason to come in, and you can reach us at (865) 588-3937.

07/30/2026

July has a way of disappearing fast in East Tennessee. One weekend on the water, a few weeks of heat, a couple of Smokies trips, and suddenly August is knocking.

If vision correction has been on your mind since January and you haven't made that consultation happen yet, this is the nudge. Not because there's a deadline, but because the best version of that conversation is the one you have before fall schedules, back-to-school chaos, and the calendar sprint that starts in September.

We're here. The consultation is the starting point. Everything else follows from there. Call (865) 588-3937.

07/28/2026

Campbell Cunningham Laser Center is not a LASIK-only center. We offer five customized vision correction procedures, and the one that's right for you depends entirely on your eye anatomy, your prescription, your age, and your lifestyle. That's the conversation we have at every consultation.

LASIK: For patients with stable prescriptions and adequate corneal thickness.

PRK: No corneal flap, making it the better choice for active patients, contact sport athletes, first responders, and military applicants.

EVO ICL: An implantable lens for patients with high prescriptions, thin corneas, or dry eye that makes laser procedures less ideal.

RLE: For adults 40-plus dealing with presbyopia and early lens changes, with the added benefit of eliminating future cataracts.

Cataract Surgery: Premium lens options that can reduce or eliminate the need for glasses after cataract removal.

If you've been putting off a consultation because you weren't sure where to start, this is the starting point. Call (865) 588-3937.

Address

1124 E Weisgarber Road
Knoxville, TN
37909

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+18655840905

Website

http://cclceyes.com/campbell-cunningham-laser-center-celebrates-20-years/

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