Patent ID: 8991401
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A61F,A61N

Abstract:
1. A process for preventing, delaying or ameliorating one or more symptoms of presbyopia in a patient, the process comprising promoting one or more of reproduction of epithelial cells, formation of fiber cells, or formation of sutures, in a crystalline lens of at least one eye of the patient, wherein the process comprises one or more of: identifying and/or protecting mitotically active epithelial cells, and ablating mitotically inactive epithelial cells in the germinative zone or the pregerminative zone of the crystalline lens; creating one or more disruptions in the aqueous humor or the vitreous humor or both of the eye; or altering a balance of growth factors in the anterior humor or vitreous humor or both, in one or both eyes of the patient.