Interested in LASIK options? -Reporting Over 1 Million SMILE procedures worldwide! We were among the FIRST!
It was announced yesterdey (September 28, 2017) that doctors have performed over 1 million procedures of laser vision correction surgery using Zeiss’s SMILE refractive technology worldwide! ReLEx SMILE is now being performed across the globe by over 1,300 surgeons (in more than 65 countries) with patients reporting high satisfaction with the results of this very…
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Dr. Shama Essa to lecture at the Combined Ophthalmic Symposium this weekend in Austin!
Our very own, Dr. Shama Essa, OD, will be gracing the stage of the Combined Ophthalmic Symposium which is presented and sponsored by the Advanced Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) this upcoming weekend in Austin and we are so excited for her to share her knowledge with the audience of eye care physicians…
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Why is it bad to sleep in my Contact Lenses? Important safety information for all contact lens wearers out there!
Let’s start this conversation with an important question. Contact Lens Wearers only (there are 41 million contact wearers in the US)… Why do you wear two week disposable contact lenses for almost 2 months? a) I can still see okay through themb) It’s cheaperc) I haven’t gotten around to seeing the eye doctor again With…
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Study Shows Contact Lens Wearers Happier After LASIK!
In the study cited here, 1800 people were surveyed over a 3-year period. While some of them continued to wear contact lenses, the remainder of the people involved in the study had LASIK. Of those people who had LASIK, the majority of them had successfully worn contact lenses for at least 5 years prior to…
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New LASIK statistics show patients are better WITHOUT glasses than with! We agree!
A new article published this month looked at the FDA’s official approval data for the 3 common modern LASIK platforms in the US. There were 718 total eyes that were examined, and many of them were the eyes of our very own Slade & Baker Vision patients! What was found? If you ask us, this…
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Modern LASIK Reviews Published Prove Incredible Patient Satisfaction Rates, Safety and Performance!
The outcomes of what we know as “modern LASIK” have been studied, reviewed and now published. The data supports that LASIK is safe, efficacious and that the vast majority of patients are extremely satisfied with their outcomes. The global LASIK scientific literature reviews were first conducted in 2009 and included nearly 3,000 LASIK studies published…
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Part 3 of 5: LASIK vs. Contact Lenses – Which Is Safer?
LASIK vs. Contact Lenses. Which is safer? Here is a topic that we deal with on a daily basis, and perhaps you have even considered it once or twice. We wanted to have an open discussion with our readers about LASIK and how they feel about it in relation to wearing contacts, as that is…
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Part 2 of 5: LASIK is less expensive than contact lenses, a blog series
Continuing our blog series on LASIK vs. Contact Lenses… As we covered in Part 1, there is published data showing that LASIK patients are happier than Contact Lens Wearers. Maybe it’s because they have more money in their pocket! Did you know that daily contact lenses plus solution plus an annual glasses update totals at…
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Part 1 of 5: LASIK vs. Contact Lenses. New Study finds LASIK patients to be more satisfied than patients in Contact lenses or glasses
A recent study published in the journal Ophthalmology may change perceptions about the benefits of LASIK. Although there are hundreds of thousands of LASIK procedures performed per year in the US, it is still considered underutilized. The reasons why LASIK is not used range from just the cost of it to the equipment purchase issues to the…
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New study proves contact lens users who chose to have LASIK were more satisfied with their vision 1-3 years after surgery! Are YOU a millenial? Have you thought about LASIK?
Are YOU a millennial? Did you know that millennials have the highest rate of nearsightedness of any previous generation? Recent research reports the current nearsightedness rate is nearly double that of 30 years ago! Would you think more about LASIK if I told you a study found that LASIK patients younger than age 40 were the MOST…
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