All participants were recruited from Fujian Provincial Hospital in Fuzhou, China, from May 2024 to January 2025. Tear film breakup time was measured in all participants to determine dry eye ...

Top Cleveland Clinic and University of Iowa eye doctors explain it's not just blurry vision or irritation—and not just any ...

A panelist discusses how a prospective study demonstrated that twice-daily use of a nasal spray significantly improved tear ...

Tear film BUT reflects the quality and stability of the tear film. Corneal epithelial diseases may be accompanied by some tear film instability due to superficial epithelial abnormalities, even ...

Collagen scaffold spurs regeneration of corneal cells, nerves, tear film In the first human clinical trial of a biosynthetic cornea, all implants remained viable at 2 years, with no tissue rejection.

The tear film covers the cornea and is made of three layers: The oily layer: The meibomian glands along the eyelids produce the superficial layer, which creates a smooth surface and prevents tears ...

Maintenance of a healthy tear film is achieved by a constant feedback mechanism between the ocular surface, brainstem and lacrimal glands, collectively called the Lacrimal Functional Unit. [1 ...

When a contact lens sits on your eye, it fundamentally disrupts the natural tear film that keeps your eye surface moist and protected. ... allowing more natural tear flow across the cornea.

With a little tender, loving care, and some awareness about what the sun and environment can do to you eyes, it's not impossible to avoid pteygium growth, or Surfer's Eye. So wear those sunnies, keep ...

The third eyelid is also believed to help keep the surface of the eye moister by holding the tear film against the cornea better than the eyelids do by themselves.