Method for making an accommodating intraocular lens
AssigneeAdvanced Medical Optics, Inc.
InventorJoseph I. Weinschenk, III
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Abstract
A method of making an intraocular lens having an optic portion joined to a haptic portion by a flexible element which comprises the steps of: (e) forming a core of a material suitable for use as said optic portion; (f) reacting said core to provide a first composite of said optic portion and said flexible element bonded thereto; (g) reacting said flexible element with a material suitable for use as said haptic portion to provide a second composite; and (h) machining said second composite to form said intraocular lens.
Claims20
A method of making an accommodating intraocular lens having an optic portion joined to a haptic portion by a flexible element which allows the optic portion to move axially in the eye when subjected to compressive force which comprises the steps of:
- (a) forming a core of a material suitable for use as said optic portion;
- (b) polymerizing about said core a first polymerizable material for forming a flexible element to provide a first composite of said optic portion and said flexible element bonded thereto;
- (c) reacting said flexible element with a material suitable for use as said haptic portion to provide a second composite;
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- (d) machining said second composite to form said intraocular lens.
A method of making an accommodating intraocular lens having an optic portion joined to a haptic portion by a flexible element which allows the optic portion to move axially in the eye when subjected to compressive force which comprises the steps of:
- (a) forming a core of a material suitable for use as said optic portion;
- (b) hydrolyzing the surface of said core material to provide a first composite of said optic portion and said flexible element bonded thereto;
- (c) reacting said flexible element with a material suitable for use as said haptic portion to provide a second composite;
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- (d) machining said second composite to form said intraocular lens.
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