Dry Eye Dx and Tx: <br>Tailoring the Tear Reservoir</br> - Takeaways - MDSpire

Dry Eye Dx and Tx: <br>Tailoring the Tear Reservoir</br>

  • By

  • STEPHANIE PISANO, OD

  • May 1, 2026

  • 4 min

Share

  • 1

    Scleral lenses are increasingly used by patients with dry eye and ocular surface disease for symptom control.

  • 2

    Nonpreserved 0.9% sodium chloride vials are commonly used as filling solutions for scleral lenses.

  • 3

    New preservative-free filling solutions specifically designed for scleral lens wear have become available.

  • 4

    Adding artificial tears or autologous serum to saline in the scleral lens reservoir can improve patient symptoms.

  • 5

    Recent studies show that using cyclosporine in the lens reservoir effectively improves dry eye symptoms.

Original Source(s)

Dry Eye Dx and Tx: <br>Tailoring the Tear Reservoir</br>

  • by STEPHANIE PISANO, OD

  • May 1, 2026

Related Content

High-Tech Contact Lenses

From the promise of tailored drug delivery to augmented reality and continuous health monitoring, there have been numerous avenues of research investigating the high-tech contact lenses of the future.

Safety signals of perfluorohexyloctane ophthalmic solution in patients with dry eye disease

Music May Ease Anxiety in Eye Clinics

Background music and multimedia exposure were associated with lower patient-reported anxiety in a quasi-experimental ophthalmology clinic study that used existing clinic audiovisual infrastructure at no additional cost.