The Eye Vets

The Eye Vets Eye care. For Your Animals. Privately-owned ophthalmology practice based in Nashville, TN.
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With locations in:
📍Nashville, TN
📍Bowling Green, KY
📍Clarksville, TN
📍Goodlettsville, TN

08/26/2026

🦁👁️ WILD ABOUT EYES IS BACK! 👁️🦏

Join The Eye Vets for our 2nd Annual Wild About Eyes CE Symposium—a one-of-a-kind day of veterinary continuing education at the Nashville Zoo!

📅 Saturday, October 10
📍 Nashville Zoo – HCA Healthcare Veterinary Center
3777 Nolensville Pike | Nashville, TN 37211
⏰ 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
🩺 For veterinarians only

This isn’t your average CE event. Spend the day learning in the incredible HCA Healthcare Veterinary Center while enjoying everything the Nashville Zoo has to offer!

☕ 8:00 AM — Breakfast
🎓 9:00 AM — Educational sessions begin
🦏 12:00–1:00 PM — Lunch with the rhinos
👁️ 3:00 PM — Final presentation concludes

Come for the CE. Stay for the rhinos. Leave with new knowledge, new connections, and a day at the Zoo you won’t soon forget!

A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for helping make Wild About Eyes possible:

Epicur Pharma / Stokes Pharmacy • Cherry • Antech • MouseCalls • Vetrix • Design Build Partners • BlueCotton

🎟️ Space is limited! Register through the link in our bio or visit our website to reserve your spot.

08/18/2026

Stick Season: Veterinary Ophthalmology Edition. 👁️🪵🎶

Dermoid…but not where you’d expect it! 👀Corneal dermoids are fairly common, but a conjunctivo-palpebral dermoid? Those a...
07/29/2026

Dermoid…but not where you’d expect it! 👀

Corneal dermoids are fairly common, but a conjunctivo-palpebral dermoid? Those are much rarer. Dermoids are choristomas—normal tissue growing in an abnormal location.

Luna’s left lower eyelid dermoid caused constant irritation, while a similar lesion on her right lower eyelid was not causing any problems at all (and her family had grown quite fond of it).

A simple blepharoplasty of the left eye restored a smooth eyelid margin, eliminated the irritation, and left Luna looking—and feeling—as good as new. ✨

What an incredible evening in Goodlettsville! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a night of learning, great convers...
07/17/2026

What an incredible evening in Goodlettsville! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a night of learning, great conversations, and in-depth discussions about eyelid and adnexal surgery. We’re so grateful for the outstanding attendance and for the opportunity to connect with so many of you. Your enthusiasm and engagement are what make these CE events so rewarding. Also, special thank you to for sponsoring us and to for hosting us and providing us with a fantastic meal!

Stay tuned…our second annual Zoo CE announcement is coming soon. You won’t want to miss it! 🦏👀

📣 Another CE event is on the horizon—and this one is heading to Goodlettsville!Join us on Thursday, July 16th at Lagniap...
06/16/2026

📣 Another CE event is on the horizon—and this one is heading to Goodlettsville!

Join us on Thursday, July 16th at Lagniappe Bayou Kitchen for an evening of learning, great food, and practical surgical tips you can put to use right away.

Dr. Bergstrom will be presenting “Flip It or Clip It: Eyelid & Adnexal Surgery in General Practice,” covering:
👁️ Entropion repair
👁️ Eyelid mass removal
👁️ Third eyelid gland prolapse correction
👁️ Surgical pearls to help improve outcomes and confidence in practice

Our CE events have had incredible turnouts, and seats have filled faster with each event. If you’ve been thinking about attending, now is the time to reserve your spot!

✨ Registration is now open—head to the link in our bio to sign up. It’s a FREE event!

We can’t wait to see you there!

Can you believe this was NOT a tumor?! 🤯This eyelid mass involved more than 50% of the eyelid margin and reportedly grew...
06/11/2026

Can you believe this was NOT a tumor?! 🤯

This eyelid mass involved more than 50% of the eyelid margin and reportedly grew to this size in just two weeks. Based on its appearance, a mast cell tumor was one of our biggest concerns.

After surgical removal and cryotherapy, the tissue was submitted to for analysis.

The diagnosis? Not cancer. Not a tumor. Just severe inflammation.

While the surgery was still necessary to restore comfort and normal eyelid function, the pathology results were the best news we could have hoped for.

And the outcome? Just look at that healing—the third photo was taken only two weeks after surgery! ✨

A great reminder that appearances can be deceiving, and why every mass deserves a diagnosis.

15.5 years young and still stealing hearts. ❤️When Faddle first came to us in December, his right eyelids were so severe...
05/15/2026

15.5 years young and still stealing hearts. ❤️

When Faddle first came to us in December, his right eyelids were so severely swollen and inflamed that we could not even visualize the eye beneath them. What began as a small eyelid margin swelling eventually revealed something much more complex — dermal blastomycosis, a fungal infection that caused an aggressive inflammatory reaction following biopsy. Blastomycosis is much more rare in a cat than in a dog.

Treatment required patience, persistence, and a team effort between his family, primary veterinarian, and our service. Over the following month, topical and systemic anti-fungal therapies and supportive care slowly brought the inflammation under control.

But Faddle’s journey wasn’t over yet. The severe inflammation left him with significant cicatricial ectropion and destruction of the upper eyelid, requiring reconstructive eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) to restore comfort and function.

Today, Faddle is blastomyces antigen negative, comfortable, visual in his right eye, and as adorable as ever.

Cases like this are a reminder that healing is often a journey — and sometimes the sweetest patients remind us just how resilient they can be. 🐾

This one was a HAIRY case 🐾Stevie came to us with a large swelling above his left eye that was diagnosed as a trichoblas...
04/17/2026

This one was a HAIRY case 🐾

Stevie came to us with a large swelling above his left eye that was diagnosed as a trichoblastoma—a typically benign tumor arising from a hair follicle (most often well-circumscribed, but capable of growing locally and causing significant distortion). He was unable to see out of his left eye!

He was referred for a surgical consult to determine if the eye could be saved. Our plan: explore the mass and be prepared for eye removal if the tumor had invaded deeper structures.

Fortunately, Stevie gave us the best-case scenario. The mass was well-defined and able to be completely excised. We treated the surgical margins with cryotherapy and closed the site with absorbable suture.

Just 9 days later, we received these photo updates - swipe ➡️ for a happy cat.

Stevie is doing tremendous. 🙌

We’ll continue to monitor closely, but for now, this is exactly the outcome we hope for: remove the problem, preserve the eye, and get Stevie back to being Stevie. 🐱

Sunny doesn’t see the world the way we do… but she doesn’t let that stop her from living fully in it. 💙This past Sunday,...
04/09/2026

Sunny doesn’t see the world the way we do… but she doesn’t let that stop her from living fully in it. 💙

This past Sunday, Sunny won an Easter egg hunt—against other sighted dogs.

Sunny lost both eyes to glaucoma after years of medical management and endolaser therapy. Despite every effort, glaucoma can still win. And when it does, our priority shifts—from saving vision to relieving pain.

Eye removal is never the outcome we hope for. But it can give something just as important back: comfort, quality of life, and the chance to keep being them.

We may have lost Sunny’s eyes…but we didn’t lose Sunny. And we certainly didn’t lose her spirit.

Dogs are unbelievably resilient.
Sunny is the definition of it. 🐾

We are thrilled to announce our 1st RACE-approved CE opportunity of 2026 for our local veterinary professionals!Please j...
03/24/2026

We are thrilled to announce our 1st RACE-approved CE opportunity of 2026 for our local veterinary professionals!

Please join us at Barrel House Restaurant on Thursday, April 23rd in Mt. Juliet to enjoy dinner and a review of treatment options for blind, painful eyes. We are so thankful to our sponsor They will be providing our guests with a complimentary gift!

To register, please see the link in our bio or email us at [email protected].

Space will be limited to don’t wait. Oh, and we will be announcing a very exciting update to our attendees! 😉

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222 Old Hickory Boulevard
Nashville, TN
37221

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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+16156406335

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