Do you have patients who find it difficult to stick with their dry eye treatment plans? In this episode of To the Point, Leslie and Jackie discuss how they have handled various noncompliant patient situations. The hosts also provide tips for increasing patient adherence to treatment plans and improving return rates for follow-up visits.

No matter how hard you may try to rehabilitate the ocular surface of your dry eye patients, if you don’t get good at-home regimens in place, they may fail treatment. In this episode of To the Point, Leslie and Jackie review the three categories of at-home care products available for chronic dry eye: cleansers, heat products, and nutraceuticals. They discuss different examples from each category and offer advice on how to ensure your patients follow their treatment plan.

Unsure of which tools you should get for your dry eye practice? Hosts Leslie and Jackie give a rundown of the different diagnostic tools you can purchase for your growing dry eye clinic, from low-end to high-end and everything in between, sharing their personal challenges and successes with each.

Ever have a patient with suspected dry eye who didn’t quite fit the bill? In this episode of To the Point, Leslie and Jackie discuss how dry eye isn’t always an isolated condition. Learn how a patient’s medication list and medical history can play a crucial role in their disease.

Knowing what to do when confronted with a dry eye masquerader can go a long way to ensuring better patient outcomes. Working their way in from the outside of the eye, starting with the lid and ending with the cornea, hosts Leslie and Jackie discuss how to identify and manage conditions that can masquerade or contribute to dry eye and complicate a patient’s treatment plan.

Hosts Leslie and Jackie are joined by guest Damon Dierker, OD, FAAO, to share their experiences with intense pulsed light therapy for treating inflammation in patients with dry eye and meibomian gland dysfunction and discuss the procedure’s limitations and positive cosmetic benefits.

Unsure of when to use scleral lenses for dry eye? Not sure where to start? Hosts Leslie and Jackie talk with guest Melissa Barnett, OD, FAAO, FSLS, FBCLA, about the benefits and challenges of fitting these lenses in patients with various ocular surface conditions.