Abstract: The awareness of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) has been improved greatly in the past decades. Warm compress/heat application, artificial tears, local/systematic antibiotics, steroids, cyclosporine, sex hormones and improving life style were used as treatments of MGD, improving symptoms and signs. What’s more, practitioners brought up the concept of treatment algorithm based on MGD staging. This article aims to summarize the advances of awareness and treatments on MGD in the past few years.