Clarkson Eyecare was founded in 1979 by Lawrence J. Jehling, O.D. and Lynette S. Lui, O.D. as the Jehling-Lui Eye Associates on Clarkson Road in Ellisville, Missouri. In March of 1987, Dr. Jehling moved the practice one block north to its current location and renamed the practice Clarkson Eyecare.

A few years later, Dr. Jehling opened a second office in Pacific, Missouri, called Pacific Eyecare. A full-service lens-grinding laboratory was then added to the Pacific location.

Drs. James Wachter, Henry Allhoff, Katherine Reynolds and Robert Lamberg, along with Dr. Jehling and his brother, Gerald Jehling, merged the Ellisville and Pacific offices with Osage Eyecare in House Springs, Missouri, and The Eye Institute of St. Louis in Clayton, Missouri, in 1995. All four offices took the name Clarkson Eyecare. The merger ignited the rapid growth of the company.

Today, Clarkson Eyecare has offices all over the St. Louis metro area including 141 & Olive, 79 Crossing, 94 Crossing, Arnold, Ballwin, Bogey Hills, Brentwood Pointe, Butler Hill, Chesterfield, Chesterfield Valley, Creve Coeur, Ellisville, Eureka, Fenton, Festus, Florissant-Dunn, Florissant-Hwy. 67, Harvester, High Ridge, House Springs, Imperial, Kirkwood, Maplewood, Mid Rivers, Oakville, O'Fallon North, O'Fallon South, Pacific, Rock Hill, South County, St. Louis Hills, Town & Country Crossing, Town & Country-Mason, Troy, Union, Warrenton, Washington, Webster Groves, Wentzville, and Wildwood, MO, and Belleville, Columbia, Edwardsville, Fairview Heights, and Shiloh, IL.

There are two state-of-the-art LASIK Surgery Centers – Chesterfield Valley and Fairview Heights.