Therapeutic Effect of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Combined with Meibomian Gland Expression (MGX) on Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD)

Table 2

Comparison of corneal nerves before and after treatment.

	Pretreatment	Posttreatment	P
Corneal nerve
CNFL (mm)	1.82 ± 0.68	2.45 ± 0.65	<0.001
CNFL (pixel)	1898.53 ± 684.83	2592.03 ± 675.72	<0.001

CNFL is defined as the total length of all nerve fibers visible in the IVCM image per square millimeter. values of less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant and are expressed as ^∗.