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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1996
J. Stuart Cumming, Anaheim, CA (US);
Medevec Licensing, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A foldable intraocular lens is stored in its normal unfolded configuration within a lens storage chamber in a lens insertion instrument. The instrument includes a ram which is movable inwardly through the chamber to move the lens into and fold the lens to a compact folded configuration within a bore extending through a tubular portion of the instrument terminating in a slender tip for insertion into a patient's eye through a corneal incision in the eye and through which the folded lens is ejected into the eye by a plunger movable through the bore. An ophthalmic lens insertion kit and lens insertion package including the lens insertion instrument is disclosed.