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US 7,402,562 B2Granted
Composition for stabilizing corneal tissue during or after orthokeratology lens wear
AssigneesEuclid Systems Corporation, The Bruce H. DeWoolfson Irrevocable Family Trust
InventorsBruce H. DeWoolfson, Dale P. DeVore
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Abstract
An orthokeratological procedure is provided that prevents or retards relaxation of corneal tissue back to the original anterior curvature of the cornea. The procedure comprises applying a stabilizing agent that comprises fibril associated collagens with interrupted triple helices (FACITs) and/or small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans (SLRPs) to the stabilize corneal tissue in a preselected shape.
Claims4
An orthokeratological procedure to correct a patient's corneal curvature, comprising the steps of:
- a. inserting an orthokeratological lens into a patient's eye to reshape unsoftened corneal tissue of the eye in a preselected shape dictated by the orthokeratological lens;
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- b. applying a stabilizing agent chosen from fibril associated collagens with interrupted triple-helixes (“FACIT”) and small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycans (“SLRP”) to the patient's eye in order to stabilize the corneal tissue in the preselected shape, wherein the SLRPs are chosen from bicilycan, decorin, epiphycan, keratocan, mimican, fibromodulin, and any combination thereof.
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