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. 2015 Jul 14;10(7):e0132656. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132656

Fig 3. Tear-film breakup time after 1 and 3 months of artificial tear treatment.

Fig 3

Artificial tear treatment and measurement of TFBUT on 20 patients were performed as described in Methods. Tear-film breakup time (TFBUT) showed a significant elongation after one month of regular use of the artificial tears, the effect did not grow further with the longer treatment both on right and left eyes (shown by filled diamonds/solid line, or open rectangles/dashed line, respectively). Means and their standard deviations of the TFBUT value are shown. Statistical evaluation was performed using the Paired T Test. One and two asterisks note p<0.05 or p<0.01, respectively.