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‘I’m happy’ is an understatement. My life is completely changed!

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‘I’m happy’ is an understatement. My life is completely changed! When you start wearing glasses at 8 years old, you get really used to dealing with vision problems by the time you turn 48. Mrs. Miller’s vision just got worse and worse after her 8th birthday. She was put into soft contact lenses, then had…

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15% off LASIK for Everyday Heroes like Teachers, Firefighters, & more!

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It is OUR turn to give back to our heroes that protect us and serve us every single day. If you are an everyday hero, call us to make an appointment today for a FREE Consultation and take advantage of our our LASIK Spring Special! 15% OFF LASIK for any teacher, firefighter, EMS, Police Officer,…

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It’s your turn for laser cataract surgery. Who do you choose? A patient’s letter to us.

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We get feedback from our patients, but some of our favorites come from our friends. Bob Watson, the owner of Patient Education Concepts, could have gone to over 8,000 ophthalmologists when it came time to have his femtosecond laser cataract surgery.  He came to us. Read his touching letter below and learn about having cataract…

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LASIK on Steroids: A LASIK Revolution, changes in LASIK, approved by FDA

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LASIK has been the popular choice for refractive eye surgery for as long as many of us can remember.  It has become a common term that everyone is familiar with.  We get asked all the time about any new updates or options for LASIK. Although there are only a small number of options, there is…

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“The world is a much brighter place now” – Laser Cataract Patient shares her surgery experience

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On August 6th, 2015, Ms. Janet had her second Laser Cataract Surgery with Dr. Slade.She had waited a long 3 months since May for eye number 2 as she had eye number 1 (her left eye) done on May 27th this year.Before surgery, she had bad distance vision and did not drive at night anymore…

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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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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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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 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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