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TearScience Newsletter WINTER 2012

TREAT THE CAUSE

ISSUE ONE

Refocusing on Evaporative Dry Eye

The Evaporative Dry Eye Experts Four Thousand LipiFlow® Treatments Completed for Evaporative Dry Eye Disease Morrisvile, N.C.,—June 14, 2012—TearScience®, a privately-held m e d i c a l d e v i c e c o m p a n y, t o d a y announced that 4,000 treatments of its LipiFlow® Thermal Pulsation System for evaporative dry eye have been performed to date. These treatments were perfor med largely by the first 20 eye care practices to adopt LipiFlow® as of February, 2012. As of early June, TearScience has more than 40

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eye care practices using the LipiFlow® system with multiple, new installations scheduled with a lead time of up to eight weeks. LipiFlow® uses heat and gentle pressure to unblock obstructed Meibomian glands located in the eyelids during an in-office procedure. The goal of unblocking the glands is to allow them to resume their natural production of lipids needed for a healthy tear film. “Given our recent success with this new treatment, we are seeing LipiFlow® emerge as a new standard of care for evaporative dry eye patients,” said John A. Hovanesian, MD, of Harvard Eye Associates in Laguna Hills, California. “How we approach dry eye is evolving because of LipiFlow®. It has become a very positive advance for both patients and physicians alike.”

“In a randomized, controlled, multicenter clinical study, at four weeks after a single LipiFlow® treatment, 84 percent of patients experienced an improvement

Dry Eye-23 million sufferers in the U.S. costing $3.8 billion annually.

in the number of Meibomian glands secreting lipids,” said Stephen Lane, MD, of Associated Eye Care in Stillwater, Minnesota.

The keys to healthy eyes LipiFlow: Revolutionary treatment for dry eyes


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