EyeCon 2022: Award-winning (tear) film - treating dry eye disease

Hi, I'm Steve Pflugfelder. I'm professor and director of the Ocular Surface Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

My presentation is going to present a challenging diagnostic dilemma. It highlights that all dry eye conditions are not the same. It's a very good idea to have some idea on how to classify dry eye both through a careful history and your examination. And through that you can often identify the more challenging problems that's essential for a happy patient in an award-winning tear film.

In my particular case, it shows that the patient had been treated for other conditions without success and then when I identified the underlying problem, which was conjunctivochalasis, and did the appropriate treatment the patient was extremely happy and was able to get back to a normal functioning life.