for doctors
Welcome! To help you find what you need quickly, here is a list of some of our web pages, services and products doctors most frequently want to see:
Products, sales, and general support
- Check out some of our best-selling products, including:
- Need help finding a dry eye product that we don't carry? Give us a call and we'll help you locate it!
- Looking for an obscure product and can't remember the name, or the manufacturer?
- Need to track down some kind of moisture chamber eyewear for a hard-to-fit patient or for a child?
- Need a punctal plug for someone you can't fit with your regular brand?
- You name it, we can probably help. Give us a call.
Supplement your patient education efforts
- Complimentary patient literature for your practice (3/09 - currently out of stock, sorry): We have complimentary dry eye brochures and brochure holders. Call to order.
- For motivated patients: Refer your patients to www.dryeyezone.com for a broad education on dry eye and related conditions.
- Support groups: Troubled patients? Encourage them to participate in Dry Eye Talk. Many dry eye patients suffer from severe depression and/or anxiety and it is important for them to understand that they are not alone and to get some support in getting beyond the worst of it.
Keep up with dry eye news
- Check our clinical trial roster for a complete listing of dry eye drugs in clinical trials as well as new drug developments.
- Check Rebecca's blog The Dry Eye Digest for abstracts of new dry eye related studies; general news items on dry eye; industry news; new product news; and more.
- Sign up for Rebecca's weekly Dry Eye Bulletins via email to get highlights of all the above plus new product news and news from The Dry Eye Zone. To get the bulletins, simply set up an account in The Dry Eye Shop with a current email address. No purchase necessary; can be done online or by phone at 1-877-693-7939 x2.
Boost your dry eye practice
- Submit a physician listing for The Dry Eye Yellow Pages, so patients can find you readily. Click here for information and to download an application. NOTE: Fee no longer applicable (sorry, haven't updated the form yet).
- Participate on Dry Eye Talk in the Pro Corner. Just register for the forums (free, requires current email address), introduce yourself in this forum and you can get started.
Product reference lists and consumer guides
- Punctal & intracanalicular plugs: Reference list of all kinds of plugs including manufacturer links, plug descriptions and sizes available for each.
- Preservatives: Reference list of preservatives in common topical ophthalmic preparations including BAK concentrations in Rx drops. Please, be sensitive to your patients' ocular surface tradeoffs when prescribing BAK-containing drugs and discuss the risks and (where available) alternatives with them.
- Eye lubricants: Reference list of over-the-counter lubricants including drops, gels, ointments and more, with manufacturer links, active ingredients, and preservatives.
- Clinical trial roster: List of dry eye drugs in clinical trials and new drugs on the horizon.
- Companies with dry eye products: Handy list with location, phone numbers and websites for companies that sell plugs, lubricants, lid hygiene products, moisture chamber eyewear, dry eye dietary supplements and more.
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