No the scar tissue was from the initial injury & my eyes being inflamed for 2 weeks after getting exposure to poison dust from tick granules. Scar tissue developed after that incident so it rendered the tear duct system non-functional. Stents helped. The mini Minoka stents did not work. They pop out quick. The other stent is where it’s looped through your nose/tear duct system & tied so it can’t come out until it’s cut. It looks like a fishing line! Worked good. 6 months is the max to leave those in but mine were in 9 months. So those have been pulled out. Wasn’t happy about that. Next procedure is to go up through the nose & cut a new tear duct. Not sure what that’s called.