It is still the symptoms: Patients care about how they see and feel

When I am on the road lecturing, either from the podium or in front of a small group of colleagues at a sponsored dinner, the same figures come up on somebody’s slide: 30 million Americans have dry eye disease symptoms, approximately 6.8 million are diagnosed, and at any one time only 1.2 million are receiving prescription treatment. After this slide goes up, the next thing I point out is that the number of symptomatic patients is determined by what we would consider traditional DED symptoms such as dryness, tearing, burning (Read more...)