Orbital Surgery Center of Excellence in Beverly Hills now offers endoscopic dacrocystorhinostomy surgery. The endoscopic tear ducts surgery uses a rigid telescope that goes through the nose to perform ...

Marzia Zada has shed enough tears for a lifetime. More than a decade ago, Zada, then 5, was shot in the face and left for dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan, only moments after witnessing the brutal ...

Acute dacryocystitis (AD) is common in women and becomes increasingly likely with age, particularly in individuals with primary acquired obstruction of the tear duct. To prevent this condition, ...

Tears do more than express emotion, they keep your eyes clean, moist, and healthy. Normally, they drain through small tubes near the nose, but if these tubes become blocked, it can result in watery, ...

Torin Campbell, 15 months old at the time, was undergoing surgery for a blocked tear duct when his heart stopped. While doctors, eventually revived him, his mom, Vanessa Campbell, was devastated and ...

Under normal conditions, tears in the eyes are drained into the lacrimal sac through small openings called the upper and lower puncta located at the inner corner of the eye (called medial canthus).