Eye implantable lens haptics insertion and twist apparatus

Surgical apparatus useful for eye surgery, wherein an incision is made in the eye corneo-scleral tissue, and via which a plastic lens is to be introduced into any eye lens zone in a capsule from which a natural lens has been removed, the lens having haptics attached thereto, the combination comprising:

• a) a surgical forceps having two longitudinally elongated, laterally spaced arms and two spaced blades, said arms extending in parallel relation, each blade having integral connection with one of said arms at a forward end of said arm, each blade being blunt at a forward end of said blade,
• b) whereby the forceps may be displaced to controllably receive a haptic or the lens between the blades and to controllably bend the haptic or lens for positioning the haptic and lens in said capsule,
• c) each blade having width and thickness, the forceps defining a longitudinally forwardly extending axis located midway between the blades, there being a first axial plane extending generally normal to said blades and widthwise bisecting the blades, and there being a second axial plane extending normal to said first plane and bisecting the space between the blades, and
• i) each blade forward end being forwardly convex in planes parallel to said first plane and intersecting said blade forward end, and
• ii) each blade forward end being forwardly convex in planes parallel to said second plane and intersecting said blade forward end, the blade width narrowing rearwardly of said blade forward end, each blade being oval in outline in planes parallel to said second plane,
• d) the forceps having a generally tubular body from which said arms project forwardly, said tubular body forming an irrigation cannula extending toward the space between the blades, the cannula having a discharge opening facing said space,
• e) and a tube receiving the forceps, with said blades positioned to engage and displace the haptics and lens, in said tube, with clearance between the blades and tube to receive the haptics.