Dry Eye Treatment

Understanding Your Condition

Dry eye syndrome can significantly impact your daily life. It’s a condition where your eyes don’t produce enough tears or the tears evaporate too quickly, causing discomfort and inflammation.

Commitment to Your Comfort

Our goal is to alleviate your discomfort and enhance your quality of life through state-of-the-art treatments.

Ready for Relief?

Don’t let dry eyes control your life. Contact us today for a consultation and start your journey towards clearer and more comfortable vision with our expert team.

Lumenis Optilight Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL) for Dry Eyes

Lumenis Optilight Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Therapy is a ground breaking treatment for dry eye and styes. This in-office treatment uses specific wavelengths of light to reduce inflammation around the eyes, enabling oil-producing meibomian glands to better lubricate the eyes and significantly reduce unpleasant dry eye symptoms.

How Does Lumenis Optilight IPL Treatment Work?

The primary cause of dry eye syndrome is Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD), which occurs when the oil-producing meibomian glands are clogged up and unable to produce a healthy tear film. The oil is crucial as it stops your tear film from evaporating too rapidly.

During the Optilight IPL procedure, the heat emanating from the light helps liquify and release oils that have hardened and clogged the meibomian glands in the eyelids, thus reducing blockages that cause dry eye symptoms and improving the quality of your tears.

Lumenis Optilight IPL Treatment

We start your Optilight IPL treatment by placing shields over your eyes to protect them from the light pulses. Following that, a thin layer of cooling gel is applied to the treatment area and a small device administers the pulses of light to the region around the eyelids.

After Lumenis Optilight IPL Treatment

While certain patients notice immediate improvements in their dry eye symptoms, it generally takes a series of treatments to experience drastic change.

How Is Lumenis Optilight IPL Different from Other Dry Eye Treatments?

Standard dry eye treatments, such as eye drops, artificial tears, hot compresses, and eyelid scrubs, aim to temporarily relieve symptoms instead of treating the root cause of the condition.

Optilight IPL is unique in that it targets the source – the blood vessels surrounding the glands — enabling them to secrete oils naturally and resume their moisturizing function.

This not only relieves symptoms but also slows the progression of chronic dry eye.

What Can I Expect from The OptiLight Treatment?

You may experience a warm sensation as light is applied to the skin. The treatment is gentle with minimal discomfort.
You can return to your daily activities and apply makeup straight away in most cases.
Patients usually report an improvement after the 2nd or 3rd session.
4 sessions, spaced 2-4 weeks apart. Each session usually takes only 10-15 minutes.
OptiLight dry eye treatment is applied on the skin below the eyes and is non-invasive.
During treatment, your practitioner will cover your eyes with shields and apply a thin layer of coupling gel on the treatment area.

When should I expect an improvement?

Patients typically report improvement after 2 to 3 treatments. For optimal results, 4 sessions are advised. To ensure long-term results, a maintenance session is recommended every 6-12 months.