Patent ID: 7503938
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: A61F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of implanting an intraocular lens into an eye, comprising: a) inducing cycloplegia; b) providing an intraocular lens having an optic portion and haptics and having an as manufactured bias induced between the optic portion and haptics, the intraocular lens being held in a non-accommodating stressed state by a restraining means that extends across the optic portion such that the intraocular lens has a lower optical power relative to an accommodating non-stressed state of the lens; c) inserting the stressed state intraocular lens into a capsular bag of the eye; d) maintaining cycloplegia until the capsular bag physiologically affixes to the intraocular lens; and e) after step d, non-invasively releasing the restraining means to permit the intraocular lens to move from the stressed state into the non-stressed state in which the intraocular lens has an increased optical power, and wherein the optical power of the intraocular lens is reversibly adjustable in response to stresses induced by the eye such that the lens can accommodate.