Patent ID: 6899717

Claim:
A method of delivering an ocular microimplant into a patient's eye comprising the steps of: (a) providing a cannula having a proximal end, a distal sharp end, and a lumen extending therethrough, a microimplant retained within the lumen, and a push rod received through the proximal end of the cannula; (b) puncturing the outer layer of a patient's eye with the cannula and inserting the cannula into a patient's eye to a desired location; (c) moving the push rod from the proximal end of the cannula toward the distal end of the cannula, thereby ejecting the microimplant from the cannula; and (d) removing the cannula and push rod from the patient's eye; wherein the puncture in the patient's eye created by the insertion of the cannula in step (c) is self-sealing upon the removal of the cannula in step (d).