Are your glasses waiting on your nightstand in the morning? Read about how LASIK was the best gift I have ever received.
Marc has been wearing glasses since he was a little boy. Everyone who is close to Marc now knows that before 2 weeks ago, he could not see without glasses or contact lenses. Now in his 40’s, Marc’s morning routine began the same way every single day. When he would wake up his glasses were…
Read More“The world is a much brighter place now” – Laser Cataract Patient shares her surgery experience
On August 6th, 2015, Ms. Janet had her second Laser Cataract Surgery with Dr. Slade.She had waited a long 3 months since May for eye number 2 as she had eye number 1 (her left eye) done on May 27th this year.Before surgery, she had bad distance vision and did not drive at night anymore…
Read MorePersonal LASIK Experience from Me to You. Summer is flying by, come see us for a FREE consultation ASAP!
We have written many blogs about patient experiences at our office. Patient LASIK experiences, Patient Laser Cataract Experiences, Patient’s experiences with clinical trials we are conducting…but after doing our research, none of the blogs have been viewed as much as the ones regarding personal friends. We posted one a couple years back about the horrors…
Read MoreNew SMILE procedure, a LASIK alternative offered in Houston, Texas at Slade & Baker Vision Center
When heavily immersed in a profession, you sometimes lose sight of what outsiders and the public may think about the surgeries and patients you are around daily. This happens to all of us lucky staff members at Slade & Baker Vision Center. We were the first clinical trial site in all of Texas to provide…
Read MoreThere should be a reward at the end…I don’t ask for much, just NO GLASSES! A Laser Cataract Surgery Experience
Ms. Boswell was being seen by her ophthalmologist when he noticed she had some irregular corneal issues and he sent her to Dr. Slade’s office to potentially be a part of a study. Luckily when Ms. Boswell arrived at our office, she found she was not suffering from a corneal disease, but was experiencing vision…
Read MoreAward-Winning Research Coordinator at Slade & Baker Vision Center: PRESBYOPIA Study
Slade & Baker Vision Center’s very own Clinical Research Coordinator, Chadisty M. Pauly has been honored as Clinical Research Coordinator of the Year by RVO for the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay Study! RVO stands for Revision Optics, a company dedicated to helping find a cure for presbyopia. About Presbyopia If you need reading glasses, it…
Read MoreFighting Blindness
For those of you who have not heard of keratoconus, it is a corneal disease that causes structural changes within the cornea causing the cornea to thin and bulge outward into a steeper, irregular, more conical shape than its normal gradual curve. Keratoconus can cause substantial visual loss of vision, image distortion, streaking of lights,…
Read MoreThe Importance of Bedside Manner
“If I had another eye to give you I would!” Ms. Nancy Hamner saw her regular eye doctor every year in the beautiful Woodlands, Texas. As the mother of an optometrist, her vision was always something she considered and took good care of. She started to notice she couldn’t see street signs the same, but…
Read MoreGreat LASIK Patient Experience at Slade & Baker Vision Center
As you all know, we usually don’t take the time to sit in front of our computers and actually write a review when we had a GOOD experience. We usually only take the time to login, create a username/password and type (very loudly and strongly) when we are MAD, ANGRY or feel like we were…
Read More“The World wasn’t bright anymore and I’m used to the world being bright” – a Life changed by Laser Cataract Surgery
You would be surprised at how many patients who have been diagnosed with a cataract stop driving at night completely. Or even scarier, the number of them that try to drive by taking back roads or just drive extremely slowly on main roads. For Ms. Judy Jackson, she took the safer road, although she didn’t…
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