Abstract: Surgical implants and methods to improve, support, or help to preserve vision by altering the axial length or curvature of an eye are provided. Staphyloma supporting devices or implants can be of unitary construction from a single base material such as titanium alloy and can have a macular indenter plate wider than the implant body and an anchor structure wider than the macular indenter plate. A compound concavity scleral contact surface can approximate the outer surface of the eye with an anterior radius of curvature and can restore macular shape and axial length with a second posterior radius of curvature that can be less than the anterior radius of curvature.
Abstract: Surgical implants and methods to improve, support, or help to preserve vision by altering the axial length or curvature of an eye are provided. Staphyloma supporting devices or implants can be of unitary construction from a single base material such as titanium alloy and can have a macular indenter plate wider than the implant body and an anchor structure wider than the macular indenter plate. A compound concavity scleral contact surface can approximate the outer surface of the eye with an anterior radius of curvature and can restore macular shape and axial length with a second posterior radius of curvature that can be less than the anterior radius of curvature.