Dry Eye Minute, Issue 1: Screening isn’t just your discovery. It’s theirs.

ISSUE 01 · OCTOBER 28, 2026 · 1-MINUTE READ

01 SPOT IT: Screening isn’t just your discovery. It’s theirs.

Show the patient their own image before you name the diagnosis. “I see some things that concern me” is the moment they move from “I’m fine” to “I want to feel better.”

The best tool for it is the Oculus Keratograph 5M. No 5M yet? A $100 iPhone holder on your slit lamp will hold you over for a few weeks.

02 FIX IT: Objective screening wins over subjective. Every time.

A questionnaire tells you what the patient feels. The 5M shows what is actually there: tear meniscus, NIKBUT and redness, captured in minutes. More importantly, it shows them.

Then the Crystal Tear Screening report sends the patient home with proof.

03 FEEL IT

“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.”
— James Clear

One more patient screened today is a small improvement. Do it every day and it becomes a dry eye practice.

04 ASK IT

How many patients in your chair today have dry eye, and how many of them know it?

Sit with it this week. — CB

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