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In recent years, the gut microbiota has been implicated in influencing ocular surface homeostasis through immune-inflammatory, metabolic-barrier, and neuroimmune pathways; however, the magnitude of its effects and their biological significance may vary depending on the specific phenotype of dry eye disease (DED). This article reviews the current evidence regarding the gut-ocular surface axis in dry eye disease from a phenotype-specific perspective, categorizing it into direct clinical evidence, animal and mechanistic evidence, indirect and inferential evidence, and hypothesis-generating evidence based on the source and directness of the evidence. The existing evidence is primarily focused on Sj\u00f6gren syndrome-associated and other immune-mediated forms of dry eye disease. Clinical microbiome studies, germ-free animal models, antibiotic-induced dysbiosis models, and patient-derived microbiota transplantation experiments all suggest that gut microbiota dysbiosis may contribute to systemic immune remodeling and lacrimal-ocular surface inflammatory responses. In contrast, for dry eye syndromes dominated by meibomian gland dysfunction or evaporative dry eye, as well as non-Sj\u00f6gren aqueous-deficient dry eye, current evidence is primarily supported indirectly by studies on metabolic susceptibility, local microbiome, and animal mechanisms; whereas postoperative, environment-related, and symptom-sign incongruence types of dry eye are more often characterized by early clues or research hypotheses related to host inflammatory thresholds, ocular surface repair capacity, and neuroimmune regulation. Although microbiome-targeted interventions (including probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation) have demonstrated some translational potential, they remain limited by small sample sizes, high heterogeneity in study designs, short follow-up periods, and a lack of validation through phenotypic stratification. 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