Our Gift the Gift of Sight Winner, Nicole Long, has been enjoying her new vision for 3 months already.  She recently shared some of her thoughts with us. "Wow!  It’s hard to believe it’s already been over three months since my iLASIK surgery!  Just a few weeks ago, I woke up after a fitful night sleep and still reached for my now non-existent glasses when I shut off the alarm clock.  Geez!  Old habits really do take awhile to break!" "I can’t believe what a difference not having to worry about glasses or contacts makes in my ...

We set-up our booth today for the Black Hills Home Show. We are located in Rushmore Hall which is on the east side of the Civic Center. Our booth is located on Pecan Avenue on the west end of the aisle. Home Show hours are Friday 12-8pm, Saturday 10am-7pm, and Sunday 10am-5pm. Register for our 50% off iLASIK drawing to be held in May! We'd love to see you!

In a historic moment for the United States bobsled team, Steven Holcomb piloted bobsled USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in the four-man event, ending a 62-year Olympic medal drought for the American. Holcomb’s heroic mastery of the treacherous track is made even more significant by the fact that not long ago, he had 20/500 vision -- "profound visual impairment" caused by keratoconus-- that very nearly ended his bobsledding career. Contact lenses could no longer provide the level of visual acuity required for Holcomb to compete. Finally, with the help of U.S. bobsled coach Brian Shimer, he was deemed a good candidate for the Visian ICL. Holcomb ...

In the United States, surgical extraction of the age-related cataract is the most-performed operation in patients above 65 years of age. A cataract is the clouding of the natural lens of the eye, which is removed in cataract surgery. Prior to the latter part of the twentieth century, the cataract surgery procedure left the eye without a lens, or aphakic. An aphakic eye typically needs very thick spectacle correction to see well, but it could generally see much better with those glasses than the same eye did prior to removal of a severe cataract. Those times have changed, however, ...

Black Hills Regional Eye Institute is excited to welcome over 100 optometrists and their staff to our annual spring continuing education program on Saturday, March 6.  Attendees are coming from five states and will receive education on iLASIK technology, customer service, lens technology, ICL technology, eyelid lesions, the iFS laser, and types of corneal transplants. The Eye Institute is proud to feature our new physicians including Terry Spencer, MD; Kristin Tarbet, MD, and Steve Khachikian, MD during the optometric program.