Patent ID: 7748387

Claim:
A protective eye guard, comprising: a facial mask configured and sized to overlay the portion of a patient's face surrounding at least one of the patient's eyes and having at least one opening overlying said at least one of the eyes when the facial mask surrounds said at least one eye; an eye cover overlying each said opening in the facial mask for protecting said at least one of the patient's eyes from external objects, wherein within each said opening a chamber overlying said at least one of the patient's eyes is defined beneath the cover when the facial mask surrounds said at least one eye; a layer of shielding material overlying each said opening and disposed for shielding said at least one of the patient's eyes from a laser beam; and a sponge-like material disposed in each chamber between the eye cover and the layer of shielding material for absorbing a liquid that disperses and absorbs the energy of a laser beam; wherein the layer of shielding material is disposed for shielding said at least one of the patient's eyes from said liquid.