Patent ID: 8409177

Claim:
A method of inducing a shape change in a cornea for treating a keratoconus condition, or correcting a refractive error or a high order aberration, or other optical eye treatment, or combinations thereof, comprising: (a) generating a beam of laser pulses; (b) focusing said beam of pulses to a stromal layer of the patient's eye; (c) directing said beam of pulses for ablating an intrastromal pocket within the patient's eye; (d) further focusing and directing the beam of pulses to cut an injection port between the intrastromal pocket and a cornea surface of the eye; (e) flowing a polymerizable fluid into the intrastromal pocket through the injection port; and (f) curing the fluid to form a polymeric insert, and thereby inducing a cornea shape change, and (g) wherein the curing comprises photoreactive curing with curing light.