We all know that contact lens discomfort is the number one cause for patients’ dissatisfaction with their contact lenses. In fact, we know that most of our patients have stopped wearing their lenses by the time that they are in the 40s. We have looked long and hard to find ways to halt this dropout, and maybe the solution is the dropout. And by dropout I mean meibomian gland dropout. Meibomian glands are so critical to our tear film, and in our dry eye center we have been blown away by how often patients have gland dropout. Prior to having our meibographers, we knew gland dropout was present, we just didn’t realize how frequent it is.
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