Laser systems and methods for alteration of eye color
AssigneeStroma Medical Corporation
InventorGregg Homer
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Abstract
A method for altering an eye color of a patient with a color alteration procedure is disclosed that may include determining a laser power to deliver to stromal pigment in an iris of the eye of the patient by at least retrieving a set of laser criteria for delivery of an exposure less than 100 times a maximum permissible exposure that causes elimination of at least a portion of the stromal pigment. A laser system may be set to deliver laser light at the laser power which is less than the set of laser criteria and the laser light may be delivered with the laser system.
Claims29
A method for altering eye color of eyes of patients in a color alteration procedure, the method comprising:
- determining a first laser power of laser light to deliver to a stromal pigment in an iris of an eye of a patient;
- delivering, with a laser system, the laser light with the first laser power to the stromal pigment in the iris;
- while delivering the laser light with the first laser power, monitoring an anterior iris surface of the iris for one or more microbubbles;
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- based on monitoring the anterior iris surface of the iris for the one or more microbubbles, determining whether to continue to deliver the laser light with the first laser power to cause a concurrent temperature change in the stromal pigment that causes macrophages in the iris to remove at least a portion of the stromal pigment.
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