Patent ID: 8246609

Claim:
A method of modifying a refractive profile associated with an eye having a recipient cornea, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a corneal tissue inlay from a donor cornea, the corneal tissue inlay having a refractive profile, the obtaining step comprising: incising a portion of the donor cornea with a femtosecond laser, the portion having an anterior surface and a posterior surface, wherein the incising step comprises one of a group consisting of: incising one or more lenticules from the donor cornea with the femtosecond laser, the one or more lenticules selected from a group consisting of a biconvex lenticule, a plano-convex lenticule, a meniscus lenticule, and a ring-shaped lenticule; incising a sub-surface portion having a polygonal cross-section from the donor cornea with the femtosecond laser; and incising a sub-surface portion from the donor cornea with the femtosecond laser, the sub-surface portion having a perimeter selected from a group consisting of a round perimeter, an oval perimeter, and a polygonal perimeter; removing the sub-surface portion from the donor cornea; and sculpting at least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface in conformance with the refractive profile of the corneal tissue inlay; forming a recipient bed in the recipient cornea; and positioning the corneal tissue inlay into the recipient bed to correct the refractive profile of the eye with the refractive profile of the corneal tissue inlay.