Intense Pulsed Light Therapy Dry Eye Treatment

Kirk eye center offers a wide range of treatments to address dry eye syndrome.

Intense pulsed light therapy dry eye treatment.

Ipl treatment is a beneficial and effective treatment that can be applied to many different areas of the body. One key source of potential tear film trouble is the meibomian glands. In order to provide you with the latest and most advanced options we are proud to offer ipl treatment as a new alternative. For treating dry eye originally designed for use in dermatology ipl may be a potent tool for treating meibomian gland dysfunction.

Intense pulsed light ipl is widely accepted as a treatment for skin rosacea. 16 more than a decade ago toyos et al noticed that facial skin rosacea patients treated with ipl reported a significant improvement in their dry eye symptoms. 17 since then a number of studies confirmed that ipl therapy reduces both signs and symptoms of dry eye. Ipl stands for intense pulsed light and it is a light therapy akin to laser treatment that is effective in not only helping people who have unwanted freckles or hair but in also helping people who suffer from dry eye.

Intense pulsed light ipl treatment. In a retrospective study of patients with refractory dry eye who had exhausted conventional treatment and elected to receive intense pulsed light and meibomian gland expression ipl mgx 58 percent of patients symptoms improved from as much as 25 to more than 50 percent after treatment. Intense pulsed light ipl therapy has been used to treat a variety of common dermatology conditions for years.