Natural mechanism, essential for ocular surface health
Dry eye symptoms and other internal symptoms
A recent Gartner poll showed that 48% of employees will likely work remotely at least part of the time after COVID-19 versus 30% before the pandemic.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/9-future-of-work-trends-post-covid-19/
$4B global IOL market
$14B global CTL market
25% of population >50 y.o.
Coming DED tsunami!
30m patients in US - 350M WORLDWIDE GROWING ~ 7% ANNUALLY
https://www.clspectrum.com/issues/2020/january-2020/the-role-of-the-ocular-surface-in-contact-lens-wea
https://collaborativeeye.com/articles/best-of-aoc/osd-and-cataract-preparing-for-better-surgical-outcomes/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738658/ and https://www.uptodate.com/contents/dry-eye-disease.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/smartphone-use-using-risk-of-dry-eye-disease-mobile-phone-social-media-facebook-optical-health-a7513051.html