History
– 2000: Espansione started to design and produce IPL machines for aestetic medicine, and the LLLT technology has been patented for dermatology applications.
– 2016: the Eye-Light machine has been launched.
– 2016: The My-Mask stand alone device has been realized for self-treatment of MGD pathology.
– 2018: the Me-Check screening device has been realized for easy and fast MGD screening, plus OSDI-6 questionnaire included in the software.
– 2018: Me-Check has been awarded by Horizon2020 European Program, as the most innovative medical device.
– 2019: Eye-Light machine has been improved, by adding some new treatments to the built-in software.
– 2020: Me-Check 3D comes from the ordinary Me-Check; thanks to the cooperation with the BioEngineering Department of the University of Bologna, a new Artificial intelligence algorithm has been developed to automatically detect the MGD severity level of the patient, and some more features has been added to the software.
Until 2020: With the time passing, a lot of KOLs cooperate with us; prof. Alìo from Spain, prof. Cochener from France, Dr. Shetty from India, prof. Stonecipher from USA and prof. Buratto from Italy are some of the very important names cooperating with us.
Certifications are obtained for almost all the countries, such as Canada, Brasil, Korea, China and also FDA for USA.
In the Covid-19 period we performed 5 webinars covering Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. Very important ophthalmologists have shown their successful experience with Eye-Light , reporting excellent feedbacks on treated cases. Several hundreds of ophthalmologists attended to the webinars and a lot of orders have been collected in this period. When Covid-19 locked several countries, we got sales in Algeria, India, Argentina and Bulgaria.
