A Prospective study of Dry Eye after manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery in rural population of Bagalkot

Aim: To find the occurrence of ‘Dry Eye' and to assess the severity of the dry eye after manual small incision cataract surgery with corneoscleral tunnel incision. Material and Method: A total of 81 patients were selected who came for manual small incision cataract surgery. Each patient was questioned pre-operatively about ‘dry eye' symptoms and examined with Schirmer's test 1 and tear fi lm break up time. Following this, the patients underwent small incision cataract surgery with a superior incision of 6-7mm depending on the grade of cataract. Schirmer's test 1 and tear film break up time test were repeated on post-operative day 1st, 7th & 30th day. Dryness of the eye was analysed and graded as per DEWS classifi cation 2007.