The Northern Plains Eye Foundation is offering Healthcare Education Scholarships.  Application deadline is March 1, so apply today!

LASIK surgery is effective, though one potential side effect is dry eye syndrome. This actually prevents a number of people from undergoing LASIK surgery. Let’s look at this issue in brief so you have a better understand of what this means to you.

Rapid City Rush stars Scott Wray, Daniel Nieves and Mark DeSantis discuss their experience with laser eye surgery at Black Hills Regional Eye Institute. 

In this blog post, we review the key differences between the LASIK and PRK procedures.

Help the Northern Plains Eye Foundation and Western South Dakota Lions raise money to help children see better.

Physicians at the Black Hills Regional Eye Institute participated in the care of a patient who recently had cataract surgery and regained her vision.

LASIK is a great way to eliminate the hassles of glasses or contacts.  It can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.

Smoking is linked to high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer.  Did you know it is also linked to specific eye diseases?

What is the magic age to have LASIK eye surgery?  Age isn't the only thing to consider, stabilization of vision is just as important.

Many patients are afraid that their eye is going to move during LASIK surgery and cause something to go wrong or even worse, a bad outcome for their vision.  Tracking eye movement during surgery is done during the procedure to help with this.  The Eye Institute uses Iris Registration for tracking.