Corneal drape or template for performing a radial-keratotomy pro

Details Corneal drape or template for performing a radial-keratotomy pro Corneal drape or template for performing a radial-keratotomy pro

1995-03-02

1997-04-08

Buiz, Michael Powell

Surgery

Instruments

Corneal cutter or guide for corneal cutter

33512, A61B 1700

Patent

active

056182929

ABSTRACT:
A template of flexible material that is so fenestrated or otherwise configured as to be self-adherent to the cornea and to readily conform to the curvature of the cornea, the template being further configured to provide ready centering on the visual axis and to establish a removable pattern of knife-guiding slits, wherein the pattern is selected as a particular one, from a plurality of available patterns, each of which has been designed to serve a different but predetermined optical change via an RK and/or an AK procedure. The self-adherence is relative, intended only to serve correctly guided use of a knife, in that the template is readily removable after the intended cuts have been made. A variety of embodiments is disclosed.

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