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When is My Vision Stable Enough For LASIK?

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I was just talking to a 26-year-old friend about her latest eye doc appointment and how she was getting new contacts. I reminisced about getting LASIK at 28 years old and how much it changed my life. We compared contact lens prescriptions and she said ‘Wait. I thought my vision had to ‘not change’ for…

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Finally, Something We Can All Agree On: LASIK Satisfaction Rates

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In the current world we live in, with the current political landscape which constantly feels like no one can get along, it is comforting to know that there is something that the vast majority of people can actually agree upon… Apparently, it’s LASIK. There is a 95.4% patient satisfaction rate with LASIK According to one…

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LASIK In Your Off-Season

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As many of us are just recuperating this week from the Super Bowl fun, we thought it would be interesting to touch upon pro athletes and how they handle vision and LASIK. It’s pretty obvious that good vision is vital to an elite athlete’s performance.  They need it for their job and the better he…

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Two Post LASIK Patients Share Their Experience

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The American Refractive Surgery Council posted a wonderful blog article about post LASIK patients and their experiences.  Two of the patients highlighted in the article that were interviewed by the ARSC for their experience, happened to be two patients of ours who had LASIK at our clinic in Houston! These individuals who recently elected to…

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What makes Cataract Surgery at Slade & Baker different?

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Cataract surgery is one of the safest procedures in the world. With a 98 percent success rate, cataract surgeries are one of the most successful surgeries (if not the most successful) in the US! But we asked ourselves – What makes Slade & Baker cataract surgery so different? We are refractive specialists with the longest…

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“I didn’t want to be that old man with the string around my neck” – Hate your reading glasses?

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Just 4 short weeks ago, Chris was relying on his cellphone at work. He told us he would take screenshots of pages at work and zoom in on them with his phone—just to be able to read them. After the Raindrop procedure at Slade & Baker, Chris no longer has that problem. Before his surgery,…

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Interested in LASIK options? -Reporting Over 1 Million SMILE procedures worldwide! We were among the FIRST!

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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!

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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!

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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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The Science of Happiness

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Forbes recently did an article cited here discussing why people should spend their money on experiences and not possessions. They found that the experiences of life brought more joy and memories than buying material “stuff”. Our brains quickly adjust to those new items, which become simply another outdated item in our home or driveway. The…

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