Patent ID: 9700461
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A laser treatment method for an eye of a patient, the eye having a sclera and a pars plana posterior to a pars plicata and a pre-laser treatment intraocular pressure, the method comprising: providing a treatment probe for treating the eye of the patient, the treatment probe including: an elongate body defining a handle having a proximal end and a distal end; a contact member mounted to the distal end of the handle, the contact member including a convex contact surface configured for slidingly engaging a surface of the eye; and a treatment fiber extending along the elongate body and configured for delivering a treatment laser to the eye from a distal end of the treatment fiber, the distal end of the treatment fiber protruding distally of the convex contact surface; placing the convex contact surface of the treatment probe on the surface of the eye of the patient; sliding the convex contact surface of the probe across the surface of the eye along a treatment region of the eye that is posterior to the limbus of the eye; and delivering the treatment laser to the treatment region of the eye while sliding the convex contact surface of the probe across the surface of the eye.