Oculoplastic research review - February 2025
Foreign body suture granuloma in canthal surgery: association with suture type
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Foreign body suture granuloma in canthal surgery: association with suture type
Auckland ophthalmologist Dr Simon Dean has returned from what he described as a thoroughly immersive trek through the Aussie outback to support and fundraise for Indigenous doctors keen to pursue an Australasian ophthalmology career.
The eyelids protect the eye physically, by blinking, which protects the ocular surface from noxious insult and facilitates tear spreading via secretion of lipids from the meibomian glands. Involutional or iatrogenic eyelid changes can influence eyelid function, potentially leading to dry eye. This r
Telemedicine in oculoplastic and adnexal surgery: clinicians’ perspectives in the UK
A recent case illustrates that, despite recent advances in the diagnosis and management of dry eye disease (DED), its identification often remains elusive. To prevent misdiagnosis, clinicians are reminded to watch out for key features.
Here’s the thing many people don’t realise - dry eye is almost universally evaporative regardless of its cause. Even the rare aqueous deficient dry eye (eg. Sjögren's syndrome) has an evaporative
Interestingly pain perceived as ocular surface pain, can differ in origin. Nociceptive pain (caused by a corneal abrasion for example) is the normal activation of the cornea’s nociceptors. The