The rationale for the study was anecdotal reports of the effects of breast milk used by mothers to treat blocked tear ducts, ...

Unfortunately, there is significant compensatory epithelial hyperplasia and hypoplasia after refractive corneal surgery that reduces the refractive outcome accuracy of a surface ablation/PRK ...

conventional treatment. A new device for meibomian gland debridement was safe and effective and demonstrated time and space benefits compared with conventional debridement and expression ...

The corneal and conjunctival epithelia and the tear film constitute the ocular surface. The conjunctival epithelium contains mucin-producing goblet cells and the mucosal immune defense system.

Chronic application of detergent preservatives can lead to chronic lymphocytic infiltration in conjunctival stroma as well as deleterious changes to corneal epithelium and tear film instability.