Your eyelashes do more than draw attention to your beautiful peepers. They help keep gunk out of your eyes. But sometimes, they grow in the wrong direction. This is a common condition called ...

Trachomatous trichiasis, a potentially blinding condition where inward-turned eyelashes scratch the front of the eye, can successfully be treated by either of the two most common types of eyelid ...

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds that a single dose of the oral antibiotic azithromycin taken after trichiasis eye surgery can reduce the frequency with which eyelashes turn back in and abrade the ...

Trachomatous trichiasis, a potentially blinding condition where inward-turned eyelashes scratch the front of the eye, can successfully be treated by either of the two most common types of eyelid ...

December 15, 2011 — Oral azithromycin edged out topical tetracycline in a study on antibiotic therapy after surgery for trichiasis published online December 12 in the Archives of Ophthalmology. The ...

According to researchers, many patients who refuse the recommended and often free surgery for trachomatous trichiasis are driven by a lack of information and education, including incorrectly believing ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. A study explored bilamellar tarsal rotation with 3 mm or ...

Research indicates that self-epilation is an acceptable alternative to surgery in patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis Teaching patients with mild trachomatous trichiasis—a leading cause of ...

On a normal eyelid (left), eyelashes are turned outward away from the cornea. Eyelids affected by trichiasis (center) have eyelashes touching the eye. Surgery for eyelids affected by trichiasis (right ...