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Corneal heat and stretch method and apparatus

  • US 6,024,095 A
  • Filed: 04/10/1998
  • Issued: 02/15/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of altering the shape of a subject eye, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) heating a predetermined heating zone of the eye to a therapeutic temperature below a collagen shrinkage temperature,(b) applying a therapeutic pressure differential within a predetermined treatment zone of the eye, thereby stretching collagen fibrils of the eye in predetermined directions.

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