Apparatus and Corneal Remodeling Methods to Improve Vision in Macular Disease

摘要

Apparatus and methods to improve the vision in a person with a macular disease, comprising the purposeful temporary creation of increased corneal optical aberrations. Strategies include corneal treatment patterns that are one or more of asymmetric, decentered or eccentric with respect to the visual axis, which would result in worsening vision in a normal eye but surprisingly become sight enhancing in a patient with the loss of foveal function due to macular disease.

主权项

1. An apparatus for temporarily altering the topography of the human cornea to purposely increase optical aberrations in order to move light rays from an observed object to preferred retinal locations away from a diseased fovea.