Apparatus for surgically re-profiling the cornea

Details Apparatus for surgically re-profiling the cornea Apparatus for surgically re-profiling the cornea

1992-11-19

1995-03-07

Thaler, Michael H.

Surgery

Instruments

Corneal cutter or guide for corneal cutter

606161, 606180, A61F 900

Patent

active

053953851

ABSTRACT:
Refractive error of the cornea is corrected by a scraping procedure of rotating or oscillating, about a center axis of the cornea, a sharpened knife edge blade that is tangential to and against that portion of the cornea to be corrected, and microaxially advanced until the refractive error has been corrected.

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