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Keep it simple when treating dry eye patients
The recent publication of the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop II report 10 years after the DEWS I report is another milestone in the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease, or DED. Critical learnings for me in the DEWS I report were the finding that evaporative DED associated with meibomian gland dysfunction, or MGD, was far more common than aqueous-deficient DED and the confirmation of the role of elevated tear film osmolarity and inflammation in most DED.As clinicians, we can make things simple or complex. (Read more...)