Millions of Contact Lenses Thrown In The Toilet Causing Massive Pollution: A Global Crisis
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A recent article by the Daily Mail online, which is arguably the largest online news website outlet in the world, reported that more than 780 million used plastic contact lenses are disposed of in the United Kingdom each year; however, 97% of those are either thrown in the trash or flushed away rather than being…
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An Eye Doctor Has LASIK: An Optometrist’s Patient Experience
Today, I’m happy to present a guest blogger: Dr. Rebecca Miller. Dr. Miller is a fabulous optometrist who works in Dallas, TX at Brooks Eye Associates. *** I had my first eye exam when I was in 5th grade. My optometrist was brilliant; he did careful measurements of my vision and ocular health. After all…
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Looking For LASIK and Don’t Live in Houston?
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Not to fear! Did you know we get patients from Dubai, South America, The Caribbean and Europe, not to mention countless other places within the US every week? Did you also know that Dr. Stephen Slade has been coined the “surgeon’s surgeon” as over 450 of his fellow eye surgeons have chosen HIM for their…
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LASIK Patient Video: Watch Our Doctors At Slade & Baker Vision Perform LASIK!
One of Dr. Bennett Walton’s very happy patients underwent LASIK a couple weeks ago and we recorded it. We then sped it up just a teeny bit for your quick viewing pleasure! To read more about the LASIK process and what you are seeing in this video, please visit our LASIK page! If you have…
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Glasses for Fashion? Do Glasses Make You Look Better?
Did you know that some patients like to wear glasses just for fashion reasons? Did we ever think we would see that day? If you have LASIK, PRK, SMILE, ICL, refractive lens exchange, or modern laser cataract surgery and you aren’t as dependent on glasses as you were before, you can still get plain glass…
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Happy Valentine’s Day: LOVE yourself and break up with your Glasses!
If you only got to keep one of your senses, which one would it be? Which one do you love more? Smells? Tastes? Sounds? Touch? We may be biased but what would you do if you couldn’t SEE?! This is what we do for a living, so we are all too familiar with how patients…
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A New LASIK option – the Toric ICL – is FDA Approved!
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Last week marked an exciting moment in ophthalmology, the FDA approved a new version of the previously approved Implantable Collamer Lens or “ICL”. The new version that just got approved is a TORIC ICL which is used to treat patients that have an astigmatism along with myopia. The Visian toric implantable Collamer lens, which is…
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How Your Old Contact Lenses End up in our Waterways and our Food!
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Continuing to honor Contact Lens Health week here at Slade & Baker Vision, we decided we needed to share this information with our patients! Did you know how many people in America stick contact lenses in their eyes daily? 45 Million. That’s a lot of contact lenses… Next question. Have you ever thought about what…
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Ever “lost” a contact lens? You may find it 28 years later.
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It is Contact Lens Health Week according to the American Optometric Association and in this week’s honor, we are kicking Monday off with an incredible story about one very mysterious contact lens. Have you ever “lost a contact”? If you have, this story that made big news in AU may make you think twice… After…
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If you were a surgeon, who would you trust your vision to?
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An Interview with Dr. Paul Zarutskie, Premier Infertility Specialist and Patient of Slade & Baker Vision Dr. Paul Zarutskie is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist and obstetrician/gynecologist, and a renowned contributor to the field of reproductive medicine. Throughout his 30-year career he has treated more than 15,000 patients and consistently been named one of the Best…
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