Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1999-03-02
2000-05-16
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 4, 623 5, A61N 506
Patent
active
060630736
ABSTRACT:
A universally sized blank made of organic or synthetic material that can be placed on an exposed inner surface of a live cornea and ablated with a laser beam to be altered to a particular shape. The blank can be disk-shaped, annularly-shaped with a through opening, or any other suitable shape. A flap-like portion of the live cornea is removed to expose an inner surface of the cornea, and the blank is positioned on the exposed inner surface of the eye. A laser beam is directed onto a portion of the exposed inner surface (e.g., exposed at the opening in the blank), a portion of the blank, or both, based on the type of ametropic condition (i.e., myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism) of the eye needing correction, so that the laser beam ablates those portions of the inner surface and/or blank and thus reshapes the inner surface, the blank, or both. The flap-like portion of the cornea is repositioned over the remaining portion of the blank, so that a remaining portion of the blank and the inner surface influence the shape of the reattached flap-like portion of the cornea and thus modifies the curvature of the cornea.
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Buiz Michael
Woo Julian W.
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