What is it about?
In Asia, dry eye diagnosis relies a lot more on tear break up as a sign of tear instability. The classification of dry eye is based on the component of the tear that is abnormal, so called TFOT or tear film oriented therapy
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Why is it important?
This is an intuitive scheme to dry eye treatment
Perspectives
This is a simpler approach to dry eye than DEWS2
Prof Louis Tong
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: A New Perspective on Dry Eye Classification: Proposal by the Asia Dry Eye Society: Erratum, Eye & Contact Lens Science & Clinical Practice, September 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/icl.0000000000000742.
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