Dry-eye assessment · $150 · 45 min
Burning, watering, gritty mornings, blur that comes and goes by late afternoon. It's one of the most common — and most under-treated — eye conditions. It's also one of the easiest to oversell. Here's how we run the clinic so you get the first without the second.
The method
Meibography imaging of your oil glands, tear-film breakup timing, and a validated symptom questionnaire — so treatment targets your actual mechanism.
Nearly everyone begins with the foundation plan. In-clinic treatment is added for the gland patterns it demonstrably helps.
Follow-up imaging shows whether things are moving. Treatment that isn’t working gets stopped, not extended.
The clinic is led by Dr. Maya Krishnan, OD — dry-eye assessments book into her days, and your follow-up imaging is compared side-by-side with your baseline, on screen, with you.
Treatments + realistic expectations
included with assessment
A written routine: heat, lid cleaning, blinking habits, environment changes, and drop guidance matched to your tear-film findings.
Expect this Most patients start here, and a good number never need more. It costs discipline, not money — and we’d rather it work than sell you a machine.
$195 / session
Controlled heat to melt blocked meibomian-gland oil, followed by manual expression of the glands.
Expect this Relief typically lasts months, not forever — one to two sessions a year is a common rhythm. If your glands are largely atrophied on imaging, we’ll show you and explain why this won’t help much.
$175 / session · typical course of 4
Light pulses along the lower lids and cheeks to calm inflammation and improve gland function, over 8–12 weeks.
Expect this Good evidence for meibomian-gland dysfunction, especially with rosacea — but it helps many patients, not all, and it manages the condition rather than curing it. We re-assess after session two and stop if you’re not responding. Most insurance plans don’t cover it; we’ll say that upfront too.
The standing rule of this clinic: treatment that isn’t measurably working gets stopped, not extended. Nobody here is paid by the session.
Sound familiar?
And the honest counterpoint: if your symptoms are mild and occasional, a good preservative-free drop and screen-break habits may be all you need — we’ll tell you that at a regular comprehensive exam without charging you for a dry-eye workup.
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A dry-eye assessment with Dr. Krishnan is $150, includes gland imaging, and ends with a written plan — which for many patients costs nothing further to follow.