Dry Eyes Clinic, a dedicated service working alongside optometrists to give treatment options for dry eyes, meibomian gland disease and blepharitis
The Dry Eyes Clinic was established in 2015 by Myer Yodaiken in Salford, Greater Manchester. Mr Yodaiken, a consultant ophthalmologist, is himself a dry eyes sufferer. While attending a conference some years back, he came across an exhibition stand demonstrating the LipiFlow system and sister LipiView instrument (figure 1). The manufacturers TearScience were happy to demonstrate the system and subsequently treated Mr Yodaiken with the objective of easing the underlying cause of his dry eyes. This changed the way in which he looked at the treatment of dry eyes.
The LipiFlow and LipiView equipment was, and still is, not widely available in the UK and Mr Yodaiken decided to buy both machines to give relief to his dry eye patients initially in North West England.
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