Cataract Beyond the Lens
Cataract Beyond the Lens How the Ocular Ecosystem Shapes Eye Aging. A Dermophthalmology Position Paper on the Relationship Between the Ocular Surface, Eyelids, Chronic Inflammation, and Cataract Cataract Beyond the Lens presents a new systems-based approach to understanding cataract and ocular aging. Rather than viewing cataract exclusively as a disorder of the crystalline lens, the […]
Dermophthalmology: Redefining the Tear Film as a Unifying Optical and Biological Interface
The Tear Film as a Unifying Optical and Biological Interface ABSTRACT Background Visual discomfort, intermittent blurred vision, ocular fatigue, and ocular-surface symptoms are increasingly common in modern populations, often in the absence of overt structural abnormalities. Despite major advances in ophthalmology, dermatology, and ocular-surface science, these phenomena remain incompletely explained within existing […]
Headache Beyond the Brain
Peripheral Trigeminal Input, Ocular Surface Dysfunction, and the Sensory Load Model in Chronic Headache Version 1.0 Publication Date: March 2026 Athens – Greece WOD.global – World Organization of Dermophthalmology Abstract Introduction Headache is one of the most prevalent and disabling neurological symptoms worldwide. Despite major advances in neuroimaging and in the neurovascular understanding […]
From Isolated Ophthalmic Entities to the Pathological Spectrum
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Classical Ophthalmology relies on binary diagnostic models that inadequately describe the temporal and functional evolution of disease. Many ocular “conditions” represent stages within a continuous pathological spectrum (continuum), not independent entities. Blepharitis, MGD, dry eye disease, and chalazion are different expressions along the same pathological trajectory. Disease does not “reside” solely within the […]
Defining the Eye–Skin Axis as an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field
A White Paper by the World Organization of Dermophthalmology (WOD)Conceived in Greece — Applied Worldwide Executive Summary Modern medicine has achieved remarkable advances through specialization. However, this necessary fragmentation has also created clinically relevant gaps—areas of the human body that do not fully belong to a single discipline and therefore remain insufficiently addressed. One such […]
Ophthalmoderma – The New Target Organ in Dermophthalmology
Position Paper of the World Organization of Dermophthalmology (WOD) Abstract Classical Anatomy and Physiology have traditionally treated organs as separate structures with clear boundaries: eye, skin, hair, mucosa.The zones where these systems meet – the interfaces – were viewed merely as “transitional areas” between organs, not as autonomous biological systems.Dermophthalmology introduces the concept of Ophthalmoderma as a […]