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What is Eye-Light IPL?

It is a polychromatic light that stimulates the Meibomian glands to resume normal activities, thanks to thermal pulses! Applied around the eyes and on the cheekbones, it stimulates contraction of the glands, increasing the lipid stream and reducing the evaporation of tears.

Good thing, there’s Eye-Light IPL!
Thanks to the patented technology of Eye-Light IPL (Intense Pulsed Light), the Meibomian glands resume the production of lipids necessary to the eye’s functionality, improving the symptoms of dry eyes after a few hours!

Eye-Light ® is the only instrument with 2 patented technologies, OPE® / IPL and LIGHT MODULATION® / LLLT. The synergy of the two medical technologies optimizes the treatment of dry eye .

Why use Eye-Light IPL?

It’s safe and painless.

You can appreciate an improvement of the Meibomian gland functionality a few hours after the treatment.

It treats both upper and lower meibomian glands. As well as treating dry eye disease caused by MGD

Chalazion, styes, blepharitis, post-blepharoplasty and demodex are effectively treated.

Primary outcomes include change in tear breakup time and self-reported patient satisfaction!

It’s completely automated with software-set parameters, so less risk of errors.

The treatment lasts a few minutes and allows an immediate return to normal activities.

Simple but effective treatment for Dry Eye

Learn why Eye-Light® is superior to other IPL treatments
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Demodex is the most common ectoparasites found in human skin. It lives in the follicles of some people's eyelashes, and can be directly associated with different eye pathologies such as rosacea, chalazion, stye or chronic blepharitis (related in many cases to dry eye disease). Routine examination through the use of a slit lamp does not allow a clear detection of the Demodex, causing the patient to not receive a clear diagnosis on numerous occasions and as a consequence an ineffective treatment. ⁵

Through the use of Biomicroscopy we can develop an accurate diagnosis by being able to directly see the presence of the Demodex mite in the patient's eyelashes. Eye-light® allows us to treat the patient painlessly and effectively as it allows the complete elimination of Demodex.

TREATMENT
High thermal impact and therefore IPL is not used.
The treatment consists of a combined therapy of a specific blue light mask and the red light mask.

PHASE 1 – BLUE MASK
Blue light stimulates porphyrins and creates an anti-bacterial action.

PHASE 2 – RED MASK
Red light stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity, it reduces inflammation and oedema and works on Meibomian glands.

Chalazion or Meibomian cyst is the most common inflammatory lesion of the eyelid. It is caused by the non-infective basis obstruction of a meibomian gland.

The obstruction produces a build-up of irritating lipidic compounds in surrounding lid tissues with consequent inflammation

On occasion, a chalazion may enlarge and pass through the tarsal plate to the external part of the eyelid.

Early diagnosis and treatment are essential so that chalazion does not develop chronic complications or evolve in other serious inflammatory lesions such as stye.

Eye-light® is the latest breakthrough to stimulate the meibomian glands, allowing us to treat the chalazion efficiently and painlessly, without surgery, thus achieving maximum patient satisfaction.

TREATMENT

High thermal impact and therefore IPL is not used. The treatment consist of an application with the standard supply red light mask. Red light stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity, it reduces inflammation and oedema and works on meibomian glands.

MEIBOMIAN GLAND DYSFUNCTION (MGD)

Dry Eye Disease is a tear film disorder which can be produced by excessive evaporation of tears in 86% of cases. This evaporation is induced by the obstruction or malfunction of the Meibomian glands that are located in the eyelids and are responsible for producing the tears lipid layer. When they are obstructed, they do not produce enough oily components for the tear film, which consequently evaporates quicker and cause damages to the ocular surface and eye discomfort. ²

Clinical studies support the use of Eye-light for the treatment of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction.
Learn about the clinical study conducted by Dr. Stonecipher which purpose was to evaluate the effects of the treatment with Eye-light on patients with MGD.

TREATMENT
Eye-light® is the unique device that can treat both upper and lower eyelids and therefore the 100% of the Meibomian glands. It is a quick, painless and safety treatment. CLICK HERE

Stye or hordeolum is a common type of infection of the sebaceous glands of the eyelid that results in a lump. The stye can be distinguished from a chalazion, which tends to imply less inflammatory response and follows a more chronic course. Staphylococcus bacteria is responsible for most of these infections. When a Meibomian gland becomes acutely infected, it produces an internal hordeolum while an external hordeolum represents a localized formation of follicle abscesses. ⁸
After one or two days the external stye shows on the lid margin. generally a small boil is visible close to the lash root, surrounded by hyperemia, swelling and oedema.
In two-four days the lesion fistulates with secretions.

TREATMENT

High thermal impact and therefore IPL is not used. The treatment consist of an application with the standard supply red light mask. Red light stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity, it reduces inflammation and oedema and works on meibomian glands.

Blepharitis is an ophthalmologic condition characterized by an inflammation of the eyelid margins. Anterior blepharitis is usually associated with an infection that produces an overgrowth of bacteria that create a biofilm that serves as food for the Demodex causing inflammation of the eyelids. Meibomian gland dysfunction also contributes to this inflammation, causing posterior blepharitis. Viral etiology, such as Herpes simplex and Varicella zoster is also possible, as well as seborrheic diseases. All these etiologies give rise to a commonly chronic blepharitis that may even be associated with Dry Eye.

TREATMENT

Eye-light® has been created to treat all these ocular pathologies associated with an inflammatory process.

PHASE 1 – BLUE MASK
Blue light stimulates porphyrins and creates an anti-bacterial action.

PHASE 2 – RED MASK
Red light stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity, it reduces inflammation and oedema and works on Meibomian glands.

Sjögren's Syndrome is an autoimmune disease, where the body’s white blood cells attack healthy tissue and organs. With this disease, the immune system attacks, among many other things, the glands that keep our eyes and mouth lubricated. This is why dry eyes are very common with Sjögren's syndrome.
Eye-light® is the latest breakthrough to stimulate the eyelids mucous membranes, allowing us to treat the syndrome efficiently and painlessly, without surgery, thus achieving maximum patient satisfaction.

Treatment

High thermal impact and therefore IPL is not used. The treatment consist of an application with the standard supply red light mask. Red light stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity, it reduces also inflammation.

Blepharoplasty consists of an eyelid surgery with the aim of reducing excess skin and orbital fat around the eyelids, which can make the eye to look older and even reduce vision.
One of the most frequent postoperative complications of this surgery is dry eye, especially if the patient experienced dry eye symptoms before. ⁹

TREATMENT
Treatment with Eye-light® will benefit patients after their blepharoplasty in order to avoid dry eye effects and allow a complete recovery of the surgery. It consist os a first step with a specific yellow light mask and a second phase with red light mask.

Phase 1 with a specific yellow light mask
The yellow light has a specific action on the lymphatic system and stimulating cell metabolism promotes a detoxifying action to alleviate swelling and post-intervention oedema.

PHASE 2 – RED MASK
Red light accelerates and optimizes the eyelid surgical wound healing process by stimulating the production of collagen and elastin: it is absorbed by mitochondria and stimulates ATP by increasing and improving cellular activity

PRE & POST REFRACTIVE SURGERY: CATARACT, PRK, LASIK

One of the most important risk factors for Dry Eye are some ocular surgeries, such as cataract and refractive surgeries, like nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), presbyopia or astigmatism, being LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) the most popular method applied. ¹
After performing this type of surgery, most of patients experience some eye disorders associated to the surgery, especially dry eye disease.

“
...Preoperative treatment of dry eye is a proven way to limit complications linked to dry eye; it improves outcomes because it decreases the incidence and severity of postoperative dry eye, and speeds visual recovery
— Marguerite McDonalds, MD FACS

TREATMENT
We recommend using Eye-light® before surgery to improve the accuracy of the laser in operation and after surgery to reduce dry eye symptoms

OPE® treats the meibomian glands. Applied to the periorbital areas and cheekbones, it has been verified by various neurological studies that the emission of high-power light impulses leads to a stimulation of neurotransmitters. These urge the meibomian glands to produce, by contracting, a greater secretion; thus increases the natural lipid flow which reduces the evaporation of tears.

LIGHT MODULATION® Thanks to the high-power light emission of the LEDs, an endogenous heating of the eyelids is triggered, which stabilizes and increases the lipid layer of the tear, making it more fluid thus facilitating its secretion.