BIB gears up for Optrafair London

BIB Ophthalmic Instruments is to launch a range of new products at Optrafair London, including the Polaris Tearscope.

‘The quality evaluation of the tear film today has become a cornerstone in clinical practice. The instruments in use today, however, do not allow a careful evaluation and are not easily repeatable,’ said a company spokesperson.

The new Polaris Tearscope add-on was said to be a replacement for the defunct Tearscope-plus. The new device analyses the quality of the tear film through the evaluation of tear patterns. It uses a system of diffused illumination and non-invasive methodology, capable of assessing the size of the tear meniscus, the quality and morphology of the pre-corneal tear film, and the measurement of non-invasive break-up time, without the use of fluorescein.