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• A wide range of basic care services.
• An on-site surgery center, which means no extra trips between the doctor's office and the operating room.• Acceptance of most insurance plans, including Medicare
• Complete confidentiality.
• 24-hour emergency on-call service that allows you peace of mind, even on nights and weekends.
• Outreach clinics located in Pierre, Belle Fourche, Spearfish and Chadron, NE.
• A regional referral network of qualified post-surgical eye care providers— eliminating long trips for regular checkups.
Welcome to Slingsby & Wright Eye Care, the region's leading provider of advanced eye treatment and surgery. Dr. Slingsby, Dr. Wright, Cris Mathews, P.A.-C., Terry Wolthius, O.D., & Dawn Watternhofer, O.D. bring decades of experience to the practice, as well as a reputation of genuine concern for patients and their families. Combining that with expert skill, we deliver the best in medical care. We offer a wide range of services, from basic eye care to advanced surgery—all in one state-of-the-art facility.
ROCKVILLE, Md., September 2010 — After inserting your contact lenses and rinsing the case with disinfectant, do you let the case air-dry face-up or face-down?
Face-down seems to be better, says a recent study that checked microbial contamination in cases placed in four different locations: toilet, bathroom, office and bedroom. The cases were rinsed with sterile saline and placed on facial tissue paper.
Cases that dried face-up were significantly more contaminated than the face-down cases (71 percent vs. 12 percent). For the face-up cases, the humid environments (toilet and bathroom) produced more contamination than the non-humid environments (office and bedroom). But for the face-down cases, the contamination amounts were similar across environments.
By the way, 33 percent of all the contact lens cases were contaminated with multiple species of bacteria and/or fungi, not just one species.
The study report appeared in the July issue of the journal Optometry and Vision Science.
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