A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, DED diagnosis and treatment was a spartan affair undertaken by a tiny cadre of Jedi doctors who were pitied by their doctor brothers and sisters if they, and their quest, were acknowledged at all.
Actually, it was 2008 or so in Cleveland, but the whole “galaxy far, far away” thing makes for a much better lede. Still, as fanciful as that may be, it does describe the state of dry eye disease care when people actually started to talk about it. As barren as the DED landscape was in the late aughts, if you go back to the ’80s and ’90s,