Punctal Occlusion with Silicone Plugs-One of the Most Common Modes of Treatment

Punctal Occlusion with Silicone Plugs-One of the Most Common Modes of Treatment

Some people would find themselves sensitive to light, experience vision fluctuation, frequently apply artificial tear, more than 3 times a day, feel hard to wear contact lenses and often feel eyes gritty. All those above listed symptoms above belong to dry eye symptoms. It is a common eye disease, an eye condition in which there are insufficient tears to lubricate and nourish the eye, and everyone would suffer dry eye now and then. Then when coming across dry eyes, what kind of treatments should be apply and which one is of the most effectiveness?

Using artificial tears is the most frequently applied method, however, it addresses symptoms but not root causes. The users would always experience immediate relief, but the symptoms are very likely to return hours later. The good news is that the punctal occlusion with silicone plugs is thought to be one of the most common modes of treatment and it is very beneficial with very little risk of complications. It achieves to keep eyes moistened by increasing the amount of tears present in patient's eyes by keeping them from draining into the nose, thus a thicker pool of tears will be provided.

Recently, here is a comparison of the effectiveness on dry eyes between silicone punctal plugs and SmartPLUG. A relative study shows that they effect similarly in alleviating the dry eye symptoms of patients. The study evaluates only 36 eyes for less than 12 weeks which really was not enough patients over too little time, indicating that as long as the punctal plugs and smartPLUG remain in the eyes, the patients will feel comfortable.

A detailed research in the performance of punctal plug in alleviating dry symptom reveal that 33% of the eyes treated had a plug fall out during the 12 weeks. That is to say, with the help of plunctal plug, the sufferers would benefit for 12 weeks. Therefore, when you come across dry eyes, choose punctal plug, which will give you much better effect than that brought by artificial tears.

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