Blue Light Mask Therapy
There is a now a treatment available which treats MGD (Meibomian Gland Dysfunction), improving tear quality and other symptoms reported by patients. We are the first clinic in the UK to offer this treatment.
- Blue light energy is absorbed by molecules called porphyrins within bacteria and photosensitization occurs
- Exposure to the light can result in photodynamic inactivation – a process in which bacteria are killed by light
- On blue light illumination, the membrane-bound porphyrin molecules generate singlet oxygen radicals that damage or disrupt the cell wall of a variety of gram-positive bacteria and lead to cell death
- The relatively weak defence mechanism in bacteria against singlet oxygen-induced damage contributes to the high efficiency of the photodynamic inactivation.
This means that we are able to treat the bacteria and micro organisma that grow on the skin area around the eye and are a cause of Dry Eye.