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|Videos|March 7, 2021

Managing pandemic-driven dry eye with nutrition

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Peter J. Polack, MD, FACS, of Ocala Eye, discusses how proper patient education and nutrition have been key to managing an increase in dry eye patients during the pandemic.

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