Intraocular lens and methods for implanting the same

A method of implanting an intraocular lens in a human eye having a ciliary sulcus, a lens capsule with an anterior portion and a posterior portion, a natural lens nucleus, a cortex and an anterior hyaloid membrane, the method comprising the steps of:

• performing a continuous curvilinear capsulotomy of the anterior portion of the lens capsule;
• removing the natural lens nucleus and cortex from the lens capsule;
• polishing the anterior portion and posterior portion of the lens capsule;
• placing a viscoelastic OVD in the ciliary sulcus to flatten the anterior and posterior portions of the lens capsule together in a substantially horizontal plane;
• performing a continuous curvilinear capsulotomy of the posterior portion of the lens capsule;
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• implanting an intraocular lens in the eye, the intraocular lens having a generally circular, central lens body having first and second, opposite posterior and anterior surfaces, at least one of said surfaces having an arcuate cross-sectional configuration for providing vision correction for the eye, said posterior and anterior surfaces meeting in a rounded peripheral side surface, said central lens body having at least two haptics extending from said peripheral side surface of said central lens body, each of said at least two haptics having an arcuate configuration so that a radially distal end of each haptic is engageable within the ciliary sulcus of the eye for (i) stabilizing said central lens body at a location posterior of both the lens capsule anterior and posterior portions, and (ii) sealing the anterior and posterior portions together proximal to each capsulotomy in said anterior portion and said posterior portion, wherein the step of implanting said lens in the eye includes locating said at least two haptics within the ciliary sulcus and further locating said central lens body through both of said capsulotomies into a Berger's space.