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Flowchart of interventions and follow-up protocol for the control and treatment groups. Each patient received home-based therapy based on warming compress twice a day and artificial tears four times a day until the last visit. Treatment group patients also underwent a series of three combined treatment sessions of MBE, IPL and MGX at 2-week intervals. Clinical assessment was performed in both groups at baseline and 8 weeks after home-based therapy was prescribed
