Method of mitigating myopia development and related instrumentation
OwnerJack T. Holladayinventor
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Abstract
A method of mitigating the development of myopia, includes measuring elasticity of collagen of an eye; identifying an eye for which the elasticity measured is above a preselected threshold; selectively applying a collagen cross-linking reagent proximate collagen of a sclera of a posterior pole portion of the eye for which the elasticity measured is above the preselected threshold; and irradiating at least the posterior pole portion of the eye with radiation of an appropriate wavelength to initiate covalent bonding and cross-linking of the collagen for which the elasticity measured is above the preselected threshold.
Claims20
A method of mitigating the development of myopia, comprising:
- measuring elasticity of collagen of an eye;
- identifying an eye for which the elasticity measured is above a preselected threshold;
- selectively applying a collagen cross-linking reagent proximate collagen of a sclera of a posterior pole portion of the eye for which the elasticity measured is above the preselected threshold;
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- irradiating at least the posterior pole portion of the eye with radiation of an appropriate wavelength to initiate covalent bonding and cross-linking of the collagen for which the elasticity measured is above the preselected threshold.
A method of mitigating the development of progressive myopia, comprising:
- measuring elasticity of collagen of an eye;
- identifying an eye for which the elasticity measured is above a preselected threshold;
- selectively applying a collagen cross-linking reagent proximate collagen of a portion of a sclera extending from proximate a lamina cribrosa of the eye temporally to proximate an insertion of a lateral rectus of the eye;
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- irradiating the portion of a sclera extending from the lamina cribrosa temporally to an insertion of a lateral rectus of the eye with radiation of an appropriate wavelength to initiate covalent bonding and cross-linking of the collagen in the portion of a sclera extending from a lamina cribrosa temporally to an insertion of a lateral rectus of the eye.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.