Siavash Assar
301 Industrial Rd,
San Carlos, CA

TLDR: I found Siavath Assar to be an utterly incompetent optometrist. His diagnosis was completely wrong by a huge magnitude. He had me try on a single soft contact lens, and when I couldn't see clearly with it, he simply concluded that I am not able to wear soft contacts to correct my vision, and my only option was hard contact lenses or glasses. After going to an actual, competent optometrist at Stanford, I was fitted with a much different soft contact lens prescription and am seeing 20/20. Details: Assar is not knowledgable about contact lens fitting, and did not take any time to properly evaluate my case. I've had LASIK/PRK, but still need glasses or contacts to correct the residual refractive error. Assar gave me 1 contact lens to try on in his office, a +1.75, and when I said I could not see clearly at all with this prescription, he promptly concluded that I would not be able to see clearly with soft contact lenses, period. That I should just get used to wearing glasses anyway as people would need them as their eyes age. At no time did Dr. Assar try a different prescription on me before his erroneous conclusion. To boot, he had the audacity to charge me for a "contact lens fitting," when he did none of the work! His false diagnosis was devastating as I find wearing glasses all day everyday quite uncomfortable and annoying. I went to a different optometrist at Stanford, who, on his first try, gave me my proper soft contact lens prescription of +0.50. With this right prescription, my vision is extremely clear and crisp, and I could comfortably wear the soft contact lens all day. I'm so glad I did not trust Assar. His diagnosis / prescription was so completely wrong. As you recall, he had me try a +1.75, when I only needed a +0.50 to see 20/20. The degree to which he was wrong is alarming.

Amazing optometrist. Great care, funny, and efficient.