Foldable plastic optical lens with reduced thickness light blocking segments

A cross-over forceps in combination with a foldable plastic lens insertable into the eye lens zone from which a natural lens has been removed, comprising

• a) the plastic lens having a light passing intermediate optical portion, and two oppositely extending haptics,
• b) the lens also having two opposed peripheral segments characterized as light blocking,
• c) said segments having substantially reduced thickness relative to the thickness of said intermediate optical portion,
• d) said haptics being in the form of flat, foldable plastic elements that extend directionally longitudinally oppositely, said segments each elongated in skewed relation to said longitudinal direction,
• e) said lens defining a fold axis that bisects said intermediate optical portion, said segments elongated in generally parallel relation with said fold axis,
• f) said fold axis extending crosswise of said longitudinal axis and being angled relative thereto,
• g) the lens being folded at said fold axis to bring said segments into superposition for insertion through an eye incision into the eye corneo-scleral limbus,
• h) and wherein said cross-over forceps has two blades which grip the folded lens at one side of each of said reduced thickness segments, whereby the total thickness of the superposed two blades and two segments is substantially the same or less than the total thickness of the two halves of the folded intermediate optical portion of the lens.