External eye-contact device having opaque and decentered light transmissive portions

A method for using an optical eye-contact device comprising:

• dilating a pupil of a patient;
• and
• engaging the optical eye-contact device with an eye of a patient, said device comprising:
• a contact lens body having a rotational symmetry axis that virtually intersects a location on the retina lying within a radius of a non-dilated pupil,
• the contact lens body having a distal device surface and a proximal device surface, comprising:
• an opaque portion;
• and
• a light-transmissive portion consisting of a single pinhole that is operable to direct light from the distal device surface to the proximal device surface along an optical axis that is different from the symmetry axis of the contact lens body,
• wherein the optical axis of the single pinhole intersects a second location of the retina exceeding the radius of the non-dilated pupil,
• wherein when the contact lens body operably engages an eye having an optical axis, the rotational symmetry axis coincides with the optical axis of the eye,
• and
• further wherein the contact lens body comprising the light-transmissive portion is configured to direct light propagating through the light-transmissive portion such to be incident onto the second location that is within the eye's macula but not on the fovea located in the macula.

An optical eye-contact device configured to be engageable with an eye of a patient, the device comprising:

• a contact lens body having a rotational symmetry axis that virtually intersects a location on the retina lying within a radius of a non-dilated pupil,
• the contact lens body having a distal device surface and a proximal device surface, comprising:
• an opaque portion;
• and
• a light-transmissive portion consisting of a single pinhole that is operable to direct light from the distal device surface to the proximal device surface along an optical axis that is different from the symmetry axis of the contact lens body,
• wherein the optical axis of the single pinhole intersects a second location of the retina exceeding the radius of the non-dilated pupil,
• wherein when the contact lens body operably engages an eye having an optical axis, the rotational symmetry axis coincides with the optical axis of the eye,
• and further wherein the contact lens body which comprises the light-transmissive portion is configured such that that light propagating through the light-transmissive portion is incident onto the second location that is within an area of the patient's retina that is outside the macula.