Patent ID: 8771255

Claim:
A method for performing retinal detachment repair surgery comprising the steps of: cutting a pocket incision from an external surface of a sclera and tunneling inward to form a pocket in an inner portion of the sclera utilizing a surgical blade to tunnel inward to the inner portion of the sclera from an outer pocket opening formed by the pocket incision; providing an injector having a hollowed tubular cylinder portion with an open deployment end with a compressed frustum conical sponge contained in the hollowed tubular cylinder proximate the open deployment end where said sponge is adapted to expand to an outer geometry having a diameter larger than that of the cylinder and said injector further having a plunger reciprocally attached inside the cylinder on an opposing side of the sponge with respect to the open deployment end; placing the open deployment end of the cylinder adjacent the pocket opening of the pocket incision and injecting the sponge out of the open deployment end, through the open deployment end of the cylinder and into the pocket utilizing the plunger resulting in the sponge expanding in the pocket to a frustum conical geometry and indenting a portion of the choroid inward toward a detached portion of the retina.