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New SMILE procedure, a LASIK alternative offered in Houston, Texas at Slade & Baker Vision Center

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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…

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There should be a reward at the end…I don’t ask for much, just NO GLASSES! A Laser Cataract Surgery Experience

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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…

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Award-Winning Research Coordinator at Slade & Baker Vision Center: PRESBYOPIA Study

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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…

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Fighting Blindness

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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,…

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The Importance of Bedside Manner

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“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…

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Great LASIK Patient Experience at Slade & Baker Vision Center

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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…

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“The World wasn’t bright anymore and I’m used to the world being bright” – a Life changed by Laser Cataract Surgery

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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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The Importance of “caring and expertise” during Laser Cataract Surgery – a Patient Experience

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We can explain how important it is to have a surgeon who cares about your outcomes, we can also explain to you as a patient what it feels like to have the proper support from office staff during a surgery or procedure that can truly affect your vision such as laser cataract surgery. However, our…

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LASIK: Give yourself a gift this year. Better Vision? You deserve it! Use your FLEX dollars or your HSA before 2015!

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LASIK: A Holiday gift to yourself! It’s that time of year again.  We just passed Halloween but Christmass decorations are already up all over the mall!  We haven’t even made it to Thanksgiving! Maybe you should be more pro-active like those little elves that hang the Christmas lights so early.  Give yourself the gift you…

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“I COULD SEE!” – A LASIK story, from a patient’s eyes

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We can write about what happens at our office any day of the week.  We can explain to patients how LASIK works, how they will feel, the entire process. We can even show them videos and animations thanks to technology.  However, hearing what happens from another party, in their own words, especially one of our…

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