LEE TODD NORDAN
Medical Practice in Del Mar, CA
License number
Pennsylvania MD017683E
Category
Medicine
Type
Medical Physician and Surgeon
Address
Address
2
Del Mar, CA 92014
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Professional information
Epikeratophakia Process
US Patent:
4662881, May 5, 1987
Filed:
Jan 21, 1986
Appl. No.:
6/820066
Inventors:
Lee T. Nordan - Del Mar CA
International Classification:
A61F 214, A61F 1732, A61B 1900
US Classification:
623 5
Abstract:
A process for practicing refractive surgery on a patient's eye by grafting a donor cornea shaped into a lenticle to the front of the patient's cornea. The periphery of the donor cornea is chamfered to a bevelled edge and a corresponding slanted peripheral corneal groove is cut into the patient's cornea. The bevelled edges of the lenticle is then inserted into the groove and then sutured to the patient's cornea.