cataract

What’s so great about Laser Cataract Surgery? A Video featuring Dr. Stephen Slade

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In observation of Cataract Awareness Month we would like to share a video that introduced laser cataract surgery when it first came out 3 years ago. Dr. Slade, being the first surgeon in the United States to use this technology, shares his insight throughout the process of this state-of-the-art procedure. He also shares the difference…

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AUGUST is Cataract Awareness Month!

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August is CATARACT AWARENESS MONTH!If you are over 60 years old and feel that your vision is changing, contact us for a cataract evaluation!More than 22 million Americans have cataracts. They are the leading cause of blindness in the world. They can start in one eye first or can develop in both eyes around the…

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Dr. Slade implants the first Trulign Toric Crystalens in the United States at Slade & Baker Vision Center

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Dr. Stephen Slade implants the first Trulign Toric Crystalens in the United States at Slade & Baker Vision Center in Houston, TX! Join us in our excitement as we announce the first Toric Crystalens ever implanted right here in our clinic in Houston!As mentioned last week in our blog, we knew we would be one…

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Slade & Baker Vision Center Announces the Launch of the Toric Crystalens IOL!

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Slade & Baker Vision Center is excited to announce the launch of the TRULIGN® Toric Posterior Chamber IOL otherwise known as the Toric Crystalens IOL! This will be the ONLY lens on the market that will provide accommodation as well as fix astigmatism! This intraocular lens provides correction for astigmatism while delivering a broad range…

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What is a Cataract? Slade & Baker Vision Center invited to guest blog

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We would like to congratulate our doctors at Slade & Baker Vision Center who have been invited to be guest bloggers for the national company, Visian ICL! In this blog we explain what a cataract is and some common symptoms of a cataract. Please click on this link to take a peek!

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How cataract surgery can help more of our bodies than just our eyes

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“Doctors at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA examined data from more than one million Medicare patients who had cataracts between 2002 and 2007. In that span, roughly 39% of patients had cataract surgery. “Individuals who had cataract surgery had lower rates of hip fractures in the year after the cataract surgery.” UCLA’s Anne…

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Stephen Slade MD first Houston Ophthalmologist to use Sight Selector™

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For many years, Stephen Slade MD has used computer based patient education with touch screens to help educate his patients about Cataracts, LASIK, and other eye conditions and diseases. Last month, Dr Slade and his partner, Dr. Richard Baker upgraded their patient education capabilities with Apple’s popular iPad2 and an iPad App called Sight Selector™…

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