so if you're somebody who's using warm compresses for your dry eye treatment
then you've probably noticed how most dry eye products require you to close your eyes
and that takes away from a lot of productivity throughout your day well if that sounds like you
then you're in the right place because we're going to do a review of the tier
restore dry eye mask this is a new warm compress that's out on the market but allows you to keep
your eyelids open so it allows you to stay focused and productive throughout your day
so is the new tear restore the best one compress for dry eyes well let's take a look
hey what's up this is Dr. Allen here from the Doctor eye health show on this channel we do a
lot of education around eye diseases different treatments visual disorders as well as doing
vision product reviews around things like glasses contacts different products around dry eyes things
like that and today we're going to be talking about the tear restore this is a warm compress
specifically for helping dry eyes it's new to the market and kind of has a different approach
to doing warm compresses now if you're new to the dry eye market warm compresses are really good
because they melt the solidified oils in your eyelids especially if you have Meibomian gland
dysfunction or evaporative forms of dry eye and if you happen to be somebody who already does
warm compresses or has tried them in the past you probably noticed how frustrating it can be and how
time-consuming it is with doing warm compresses because you have to sit there for at least 10 to
15 minutes at a time with the appropriate heat to the eyelid in order to get a positive result
and i think by far for most people it's just that they try warm compresses but it takes time and
it's hard to get into the routine so it makes it difficult for them to even keep doing them
and that's exactly where the tier restore comes in it's a warm compress mask that keeps your eyelids
open so you can keep seeing and stay productive whether you're just getting busy throughout
your day in the morning or if you're sitting on the computer or watching netflix or something
like that you can keep seeing and stay and keep doing what you need to do the other possible pro
of having your eyelids open during a warm compress is that you keep blinking because the oil glands
and the eyelids they activate when you blink and you completely blink so if you're somebody who's
getting the heat to the oil glands and you keep blinking that's going to pump the oils
out of the glands after they've been melted now to use the t restore the company was very kind
to send me out some that i was able to try when you get it the base pack comes with kind of cool
travel carrying case it comes with this harder plastic full mask kind of looks like a superhero
mask like you're gonna wear it and be like the superhero dry eye superhero or something like that
it does have an adjustable head strap and then it comes with a couple of different little gel
packs like this you see these things how it's supposed to work is that these gel packs they're
made of medical grade vinyl on the outside and then the inside it's filled with sodium acetate
a type of gel chemical that when activated will start to harden and then give off and
radiate heat so when you're ready to use the t restore you simply click this little button here
and you can automatically start seeing a chemical reaction it starts turning kind of an opaque white
you can feel the heat coming from it and it's kind of fun you can kind of watch the the gel
sort of change and radiate through it i i'm kind of a nerd like that i enjoy just watching these
things once the gel is completely set you're able to kind of push the gel all around inside the mask
and then on the back side of the tee restore mask itself it's got these little hooks that you just
go ahead and put the mask right onto the hooks and then it holds it in place then you just adjust the
head strap and you slide it on and there we go now we have our cool superhero dry eye mask going on
and that's basically how you do it you put it on so it's comfortable and it radiates heat right
to your face and to your eyelids for at least 10 minutes now if you're someone who really knows eye
anatomy maybe you're an eye care practitioner like myself and you're looking into this
this sort of device you probably have a little bit of kind of curiosity or even kind of doubts about
it because the eyelids are open where other worm compresses get the heat directly to the eyelids
this one gets heat more to the lower eyelid but then it gives more heat to the upper brow
and so when i first heard about it i kind of had my doubts i thought hey how is heat getting to the
eyelids how is it really going to work well the company that made this also thought of that and
they did some studies they did thermal imaging and i'll throw up the picture of the thermal imaging
and it's where they were able to tell that yes even though heat is getting more to the upper
eyelid it's still radiating enough heat to get to the oil glands in the upper eyelid and still
help reduce and release that oil now furthermore for the video i want to go over some pros and cons
and also go over to kind of pricing and how this overall works but before we go over that i pass
it off to you let me know in the comments are you doing warm compresses are you frustrated because
maybe you tried a few and then yeah it takes up too much time is this something that you would
be interested in also let me know if you are doing warm compresses are you having success with them
which brands or other one compresses have you tried that you think work really well
now personally i've been using this for probably the last two months or so
now i'll be honest i use another warm compress at night i've kind of been focused on managing my dry
eye symptoms with just lifestyle changes so yes i do a warm compress at night with my eyelids closed
but in the mornings especially because i have a busy day i got to get ready for work and get
to the clinic so i am using this mostly in the morning because again my eyelids are open i do
find that the tier restore is comfortable to wear it's pretty convenient another cool thing that's
nice is that i don't have to run over to the microwave so if you are somebody who is sitting
on the couch in the evening maybe you're laying down to go to bed and you don't want to you're
already comfortable you don't want to get up and go to the microwave or something you can just go
ahead and use this and they snap it and it works right away that is kind of a convenience factor
but on that same note you do have to reset these gel packs you have to put them in boiling water
for at least two to three minutes at a time to reset them and then you're able to reactivate them
one little downside about these gel packs is that they are supposedly according to their website are
able to be used up to 90 times each that means if you're buying the standard pack that's coming with
again the traveling case it comes with the standard blue plastic mask it comes with
two of these gel packs each one can be used 90 times so if you're doing it once a day that's
at least six months you can purchase additional gel packs for around forty dollars us otherwise
the standard kit again with just two gel masks the mask itself and then the traveling case comes to
about eighty dollars us here at the timing of this video i know compared to other warm compressors on
the market the tea restore is a little bit higher of a price point but for the convenience factor
and if it's something that's going to actually help you keep doing warm compresses then it might
actually be worth it and only say that because i know a lot of patients who will get a warm
compress and they'll use it just a few times and then it just ends up sitting on the counter or
somewhere because they never actually do them now to finally try to answer is the tea restore the
best worm compress for dry eyes i personally think that's a little difficult to make that claim at
this point i'm somebody who just needs to see more scientific evidence and studies to really say hey
is it the best one but again for the convenience factor for people to actually do it i think that
would be a big asset for a lot of people i know when i do them i at least feel the heat and it
feels very comfortable it does help with my dry eye symptoms i even know a lot of eye clinics now
that are starting to offer this because for again that convenience factor if you're somebody who's
looking at this and you're like wow that actually is something that you would want to check out you
can check out their website i'll put links to that in the video description below as always so
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