Accommodating intraocular lens

An accommodating intraocular lens to be implanted within a human eye having a natural capsular bag attached about its perimeter to the ciliary muscle of the eye and from which the natural lens matrix has been removed, the bag including an elastic posterior capsule urged anteriorly by vitreous pressure in the eye and an anterior capsulotomy circumferentially surrounded by a capsular remnant having epithelial cells on its posterior side which cause fusion of the remnant to the posterior capsule by fibrosis during a certain postoperative period following implantation of the lens in the eye, said intraocular lens comprising:

• a lens body having normally anterior and posterior sides and including an optic and plate haptics which extend from at least two edges of said optic and have inner ends joined to the optic and opposite outer ends which are movable anteriorly and posteriorly relative to said optic, and wherein
• said intraocular lens is sized to be implanted within said capsular bag when the ciliary muscle is paralyzed in its relaxed state and in a position wherein the outer ends of said haptics are disposed between said capsular remnant and the outer perimeter of said posterior capsule, and said optic is aligned with said anterior capsulotomy to permit fibrosis about the haptics of the implanted lens during said post-operative period in such a way that after fibrosis is complete relaxation of the ciliary muscle effects posterior movement of the implanted lens such that the center of the lens body lies posterior to the outer ends of the haptics and constriction of the ciliary muscle effects anterior movement of the implanted lens such that the center of the lens body lies anterior to the outer ends of the haptics, resulting in consistent accommodation of the implanted lens with said constriction and relaxation of the ciliary muscle.