Arita, Reiko
Morishige, Naoyuki
Sakamoto, Ichiro
Imai, Natsuko
Shimada, Yuko
Igaki, Michihito
Suzuki, Atsushi
Itoh, Kouzo
Tsubota, Kazuo
Article History
Received: 17 November 2016
Accepted: 3 March 2017
First Online: 5 April 2017
Competing interests
: R.A. holds patents on the noncontact meibography system used in the study (JP patent registration no. 5281846, U.S. patent publication no. 2011-0273550A1, EP patent publication no. 2189108A1) and has applied together with Kao Corporation for a patent on the use of a warming compress containing menthol in dry eye patients. N.M. and K.I. have no competing financial interests.