Abstract: A control system for controlling manipulation of a surgical instrument in response to manipulation of a remote surgeon input device at a remote surgeon's console, the surgical instrument being supported by a surgical robot arm, the surgical instrument comprising an end effector connected to a distal end of a shaft by an articulated coupling, the articulated coupling comprising one or more joints enabling the end effector to adopt a range of attitudes relative to the distal end of the shaft, the control system configured to: receive a command from an input actuated by a user to straighten the surgical instrument; and in response to the received command, to command driving forces to be applied to joint(s) of the articulated coupling to drive the instrument to adopt a predetermined configuration in which the profile of the end effector is most closely aligned with the profile of the distal end of the shaft.

Abstract: A robotic surgical system includes a linkage, an input device, and a processing unit. The linkage moveably supports a surgical tool relative to a base. The input device is rotatable about a first axis of rotation and a second axis of rotation. The processing unit is in communication with the input device and is operatively associated with the linkage to rotate the surgical tool about a first axis of movement based on a scaled rotation of the input device about the first axis of rotation by a first scaling factor and to rotate the surgical tool about a second axis of movement based on a scaled rotation of the input device about the second axis of rotation by a second scaling factor that is different from the first scaling factor.

Abstract: A surgical apparatus includes a surgical device and a surgical controller. The surgical device is configured to be manipulated by a user to perform a soft tissue cutting procedure on a patient. The surgical controller is programmed to create a virtual object representing an anatomy of the patient based upon data acquired during a pre-operative scan and associate the virtual object with the anatomy of the patient. The surgical controller is also programmed to identify a plurality of soft tissue attachment points on the virtual object which correspond to a plurality of soft tissue attachment points on the anatomy of the patient. The surgical controller is also programmed to determine the location of the surgical device in relation to the anatomy of the patient and provide real-time visualization on the virtual object of the location of the surgical device in relation to the anatomy of the patient.

Abstract: A spinal construct includes a first member having a first thread form and an implant cavity configured for disposal of the spinal implant. A second member is engageable with a spinal implant and includes a second thread form configured for engagement with the first thread form. A gauge is coupled to the second member. The gauge is configured to measure a force between the second member and the spinal implant when the second member is engaged with the first member. The second thread form is timed with the first thread form to position the gauge in a selected orientation relative to the spinal implant. Systems and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A microsurgical instrument having one or more distance indication members is provided. In a particular embodiment, the microsurgical instrument comprises a microsurgical tool and a first distance indication member coupled to, and extending beyond a distal end of, the microsurgical tool. A distal portion of the first distance indication member may be configured to deflect when in contact with a tissue surface, without causing damage to the tissue surface, to give a visual indication that the distal end of the microsurgical tool is in proximity to the tissue surface. The distal portion of the distance indication member can be further configured to return to a non-deflected configuration when no longer in contact with the tissue surface.

Abstract: The subject invention provides devices and methods for alleviating discomfort associated with neuroma formation. The devices and methods of the invention effectively use the body's natural response of reconstructing implanted biomaterials to minimize the size of isolate, and protect a neuroma. In preferred embodiments, the subject device is a cylindrical cap, wherein the internal chamber of the cylindrical cap physically partitions the nerve to enable an arrangement of nerve fibers (as opposed to haphazardly arranged nerve fibers often produced in neuromas). Tabs arranged on the outside of the cap can be used to manipulate the cap into place on a nerve. The open end can also be configured with flaps that can be used to widen the open end for easier insertion of the nerve into the cap. In addition, the cap's material remodels into a tissue cushion after implantation, which protects the neuroma from being stimulated and inducing pain.

Abstract: A holographic augmented reality ultrasound needle guide system and method includes an augmented reality display such as a headset wearable by a user. The augmented reality display is configured to depict a virtual ultrasound image. The augmented reality display is further configured to allow a user to select a desired reference point on the virtual ultrasound image. The system is configured to depict a holographic needle guide based on the selection of the desired reference point. The system is also configured to adjust a trajectory of the holographic needle guide to avoid intersecting undesired anatomical structures. The augmented reality display is further configured to stamp the holographic needle guide into a selectively locked trajectory and position.

Abstract: An example method includes registering, via a visualization device, a virtual model of a portion of an anatomy of an ankle of a patient to a corresponding portion of the anatomy of the ankle viewable via the visualization device, the virtual model obtained from a virtual surgical plan for an ankle arthroplasty procedure to attach a prosthetic to the anatomy. The example method also comprises displaying, via the visualization device and overlaid on the portion of the anatomy, a virtual guide that guides at least one of preparation of the anatomy for attachment of the prosthetic or attachment of the prosthetic to the anatomy.

Abstract: A registration marker (40), consisting of a radiotransparent substrate (44) and a pattern (58) formed in at least two dimensions, which is disposed on the substrate and is optically visible. The registration marker also has a multiplicity of radiopaque elements (60), which are disposed in the substrate and are spatially arranged in at least two dimensions to provide a unique pattern.

Abstract: A transfer device can include a housing including first and second docking cups, each of the first and second docking cups configured to receive and lockably engage a receiver of a transfer system; a security mechanism positioned inside the housing, the security mechanism including: first and second security levers; a first biasing member engaged with the first security lever and configured to bias the first security lever towards engagement with the receiver; and a second biasing member engaged with the second security lever and configured to bias the second security lever towards engagement with the receiver; and an indicator coupled to the security mechanism and at least partially visible from outside the housing, the indicator configured to indicate to a user of the transfer system whether the receiver is lockably engaged with one of the first and second docking cups.

Abstract: A dental instrument comprises a fluid driven handpiece in fluid communication with a valve; a source of fluid in fluid communication with the valve; and a controller in electrical communication with the valve and an actuator positioned on the handpiece. The actuator is configured to cause the valve to move between a first position in which fluid cannot flow from the source of fluid to the handpiece and a second position in which fluid flows from the source of fluid to the handpiece thereby driving the handpiece. The dental instrument may further comprise a second actuator in communication with the controller. The second actuator is configured to cause the valve to move between the first position in which fluid cannot flow from the source of fluid to the handpiece and the second position in which fluid flows from the source of fluid to the handpiece thereby driving the handpiece.

Abstract: A guide for guided surgery on zygomatic bone implants for dental prostheses includes a half-bushing and a complementary half-bushing which are connected by a pair of bars. The half-bushings and the bars define a common longitudinal median axis between them; the half-bushings have a U-shaped or semicircular cross-section with mutually opposite concavities directed toward the median axis; the half-bushings and the bars form a seat in which it is possible to insert a work member, such as a burr and a subsequent implant, which can move only along the median axis and rotates about an axis of rotation that coincides with the median axis.

Abstract: A dental tool configured for being held by a dental apparatus, the dental tool having at least one material-removing edge in a front portion thereof and a gripping portion in a rear portion thereof, wherein the dental tool comprises a transponder. A system may be provided for receiving data from the transponder and displaying an indication thereof to a user and/or process the data to assist a user in dental activities.

Abstract: An instrument for removing fractured root canal instruments, comprising an instrument housing formed hollow at least at its front end portion, a slide which is non-rotatably held on the instrument housing but guided for translational movement in an axial direction, a threaded rod which is fixed to the slide and is engaged with a counter thread of the instrument housing or a counter member held on the instrument housing, so that a relative rotational movement between the threaded rod on the one hand and the instrument housing and/or the counter member on the other hand results in an axial displacement of the slide, and fastening means for fastening a wire to the slide, wherein the hollow instrument housing is open towards its front side, so that a wire can be guided through the open front side into the instrument housing and therein to the fastening means.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an obturator and methods of manufacturing an obturator for filling an endodontically prepared root canal. The obturator comprises an elongated carrier having a distal end, proximal end, and working portion with a combination of filler materials having multiple viscosities coated on the working portion.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a real dental situation of a patient. The method includes steps, as follows, in succession. At an updated instant, acquisition of an updated image representing a real dental scene as observed by an operator. Determination of a virtual dental scene as a function of the representation of the real dental scene on the updated image. Presentation of the virtual dental scene in transparent mode and overlaid on the real dental scene, or display of the updated image on a screen and presentation of the virtual dental scene overlaid with the representation of the real dental scene on the updated image displayed on the screen, in transparent mode or not on the representation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, computing device readable medium, devices, and systems having a dental appliance binding structure. One method can include to create a treatment plan based on a virtual model of a jaw of a patient, wherein the treatment plan includes use of a dental appliance having a first surface that defines a plurality of cavities shaped to receive a plurality of teeth, modify the virtual model of the jaw in a first configuration to include a virtual binding structure on a second surface, the platform shaped to receive a specialized feature that provides one or more force characteristics, select a particular specialized feature as an attachment to the dental appliance, and adjust the virtual model of the jaw from a first configuration to a second configuration, based at least in part on a modeled force provided by the virtual binding structure and the particular specialized feature.

Abstract: The present invention refers to an atmospheric pressure plasma jet device for disinfecting and coating a dental implant. The device comprises a gas supply and a nozzle for providing a gas to a tip of the nozzle wherein the nozzle is a single electrode nozzle having a first electrode. The device comprises further a precursor supply for providing a coating precursor to the nozzle, a second electrode and a connector for electronically connecting the second electrode with the dental implant. In another aspect the present invention refers to a system for disinfecting and coating.

Abstract: Dental prosthesis comprising a dental implant comprising an external thread for screwing the dental implant into a jawbone and an internal thread arranged inside the dental implant. The dental prosthesis further comprises a superstructure having an internal bore and a screw for fastening the superstructure to the dental implant. The screw has a screw head with a cylindrical or conical lateral surface and a shank which adjoins a lower end of the screw head and on which an external thread is arranged. In an assembled state of the dental prosthesis, the screw is inserted through the internal bore of the superstructure into the dental implant and the external thread of the screw engages the internal thread of the dental implant. The screw head comprises a convexly rounded chin between the cylindrical or conical lateral surface and its lower end, with which chin the screw abuts the superstructure in the internal bore in the assembled state of the dental prosthesis.

Abstract: The present invention is a dental implant tool comprising of a handle and a head portion connected to each other via a hinge facilitating the head to pivot relative to the handle to enable the dentist to reach various positions within a patient's mouth. The head portion configured to retain an abutment, an impression coping or healing abutment during a dental procedure and can be moved to the left and the right up to 90 degrees. The head comprises a rotatable ratchet with a key-shape center hole to hold an abutment in place while affixing the abutment to an implant and provides a complete access to implant-driver tip to the screw head, regarding to any abutment-body angulation, position and screw access hole. The inner wall of the center hole has 3°-degree convergences at any plan of the walls in order to grasp, lock and hold implant abutments.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a digital overdenture. The method includes a first operation of aligning and setting a plurality of pieces of implantation information of fixtures according to alveolar bone information in a planning image, a second operation of designing and manufacturing a surgical guide and a holder abutment mounting guide, a third operation of preparing a temporary denture corrected to form a temporary holder insertion portion having an inner surface part into which a holder device is inserted to be shape-matched therewith, in which the surgical guide is installed in the target arch to implant the fixtures and the fixing bar is fixed to the holder abutments moved to and coupled with top ends of the fixtures by the holder abutment mounting guide, and a fourth operation of manufacturing a digital overdenture including an artificial tooth portion and an artificial gum portion.

Abstract: A method for designing dentures according to which artificial teeth can be easily and accurately attached to a denture base, which is designed and shaped by CAD/CAM, when the artificial teeth are arranged on the denture base is provided. The method for designing a denture (10) on a computer based on data on an intraoral shape comprises: creating data on a shape of a denture base (20) based on the intraoral shape (S22); creating data on a position of an artificial tooth (30) to be arranged on the denture base (S23); and creating data on a shape of an occlusal guide (40) that is tabular and has a recess part corresponding to a shape of the arranged artificial tooth in an occlusal surface side (S24).

Abstract: The improved dental milling disc device is an apparatus that includes an innovative configuration of a dental milling disc and a gasket, designed to eliminate the risks of cracking and damage due to the vibration of manufacturing machines. To accomplish this, the apparatus includes at least one gasket attached perimetrically around opposing edges of the disc. Accordingly, the dental milling disc device allows the machine holder to be properly tightened to hold the disc in place while significantly reducing the risk of cracking the disc. Furthermore, the apparatus reduces the potential for the disc to rotate in the holder or move due to vibration as the gasket of the device better secures the disc in place and dampens vibrations. Additionally, the dampening effect of the apparatus helps increase the tool life. Thus, the apparatus enables an efficient and cost-effective utilization of the milling disc.

Abstract: An arbitrarily-bendable oral irrigator nozzle is connected to an oral irrigator in use and comprises a base which is made from hard materials and provided with a water channel used for guiding water in the oral irrigator to spray, wherein a sleeve made from silica gel wraps the base and is internally provided with a water outlet channel communicated with the water channel; and a bendable metal part is embedded into the sleeve along the water outlet channel and has a first end fixedly connected to the base, and the metal part abuts against the sleeve to form a bendable and shapeable structure. The sleeve made from the silica gel wraps the base and is provided with the water outlet channel communicated with the water channel to form a flexible bendable part, and a metal wire is embedded into the sleeve and has one end fixed to the base.

Abstract: The preset invention is a system for easy and effective cleaning and disinfecting the gum-denture contact surfaces of a fixated-in-place denture plate, especially for cleaning and disinfecting the surfaces immediately surrounding the implants structures in the gum of the denture wearer that support the denture plate. The system is composed of: a denture plate having a smooth gum contact surface, at least one Denture-Alveolar-Implant Liquid Dispenser (DAILD) and a conduit liquid (or gas) streaming system. Optionally, the system also includes at least one Denture Liquid Sieve-Dispensers (DLSD). Each DAIL is constructed of: a dental implant structure, a locking component, a basin-structure and fastening-component. When liquid (or gas) is injected into the basin structure it flows from DAIL and cleans and disinfects the surrounding area of the DAILD in the denture plate.

Abstract: A dental valve device has a valve body having a tip receiving end having a flexible tubing extending outwardly from the tip receiving end with the flexible tubing having a flexible tubing opening, a hose receiving end, a lumen formed between the flexible tubing opening and the hose receiving end, and a partial opening formed in the valve body, and a rotatable valve sealing body adapted to be inserted into the partial opening, the rotatable valve sealing body having a bore for alignment with the lumen formed between the flexible tubing opening and the hose receiving end, the bore having a tip receiving opening and a hose receiving opening.

Abstract: A dental display system comprising: an articulatable dental arm (78) and a portable-electronic-device-support assembly (75) the articulatable dental arm (78) extending through an articulatable-dental-arm receiving aperture (86) of the portable-electronic-device-support assembly (76). An arm attached to a support attachment means (106) of the portable-electronic-device-support assembly (76) and a portable-electronic-device holder (10) and the portable-electronic-device holder (10) is attached to the arm. A portable electronic device (20) is engaged between the first and second device engagement elements (14, 16) of the portable-electronic-device holder (10).

Abstract: A dental monitoring system comprises a intra-oral insert configured to be received in the mouth of a subject; a sensor connected to the intra-oral insert and in electrical communication with a controller having a non-volatile memory; a transponder coil received in the intra-oral insert and in electrical communication with the controller; and a transceiver coil in selective wireless electrical communication with the transponder coil. The selective wireless communication between the transponder coil and the transceiver coil is provided by near-field communication.

Abstract: Embodiments of teeth and gum treatment employing ultrasonic transducers are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Microfluidic systems are configured to process liquid samples that include cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs), such as raw follicular fluid, in an automated and continuous manner to produce oocytes separate or “denuded” from surrounding cumulus cells. The systems include a substrate and a channel that can have two or more sub-channels. Each channel includes an inlet, an outlet, and one or more stages arranged in series. Each of the stages includes one or more expansion units and one or more constriction units. At least one stage includes constriction units having jagged internal surfaces, e.g., teeth, that help remove the cumulus cells from the COCs.

Abstract: The present invention provides an implant that includes inflatable anchors that are configured to assume an inflated state and a relaxed state. The implant includes a tubular member mechanically coupled to one or more anchors of the inflatable anchors. The tubular member includes a lumen that provides a passageway for circulating a fluid through the one or more of the plurality of inflatable anchors and allow them to protrude and pierce through bodily tissues. In an embodiment, the implant may include a plurality of bi-directional barbs instead of the inflatable anchors. The plurality of barbs may be activated by a flexible member such that the activation is configured to cause anchoring of the barbs into soft tissues during a surgical procedure. The present invention provides a method for placing an implant.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implanting a shunt for regulating blood pressure between a patient's left and right atria are provided. The shunt comprises an anchor having a neck region, first and second end regions, and a conduit affixed with the anchor formed of a biocompatible material that is resistant to transmural and translation tissue ingrowth and that reduces a risk of paradoxical embolism. The shunt may be advanced through the sheath until the first region protrudes from the sheath and self-expands within the left atrium. The shunt and the sheath may then be retracted until the first region contacts the left side of the atrial septum. The sheath may further be retracted until the counterforce exerted by shunt tension on the atrial septum overcomes the friction of the retained portions of the shunt such that the second region is exposed from the sheath and self-expands within the second atrium.

Abstract: The embolic protection device (10) has an expandable tubular structure supporting a filter mesh material (12). The embolic protection device is compressed to a small diameter for insertion into a patient's aorta, then expanded within the aorta with the filter mesh material positioned to allow blood to enter sidebranch vessels connected to the aorta and to prevent embolic material from entering the sidebranch vessels. The filter mesh material may be configured with waves or undulations (26) for increased surface area and/or with two layers of mesh material to provide additional protection against embolization and to prevent inadvertent occlusion of the sidebranch vessels.

Abstract: The invention provides a filter assembly including a string or wire such that a lasso type cincture is effected, said filter being openable and closeable while in deployed within a bodily vessel. A string lengthen or shorting adjustment mechanism, such as a ratchet or reel allows more length of string into the device or alternatively to shorten the length of available string in the system. The described invention, when used to ameliorate venous clots and most arterio-venous dialysis grafts, a filter-tipped aspirator is used downstream from the clot to capture and remove dislocated emboli. A method of using same is disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is an in-vivo indwelling tube having a high flap strength and passing smoothly through a conduit of an endoscope. A tubular member having a proximal side and a distal side; a proximal flap, including a base end on a proximal side and a free end on a distal side, on the proximal side of the tubular member; and a distal flap, including a base end on a distal side and a free end on a proximal side, on the distal side of the tubular member are arranged; where the tubular member includes a distal side first supporting member provided on a distal side of a midpoint between the base end and the free end of the distal flap or a proximal side first supporting member provided on a proximal side of a midpoint between the base end and the free end of the proximal flap.

Abstract: Embodiments of a Urological implant include an implant with an elongated body having a longitudinal axis. Optionally longitudinal ribs symmetrically oppose each other and are connected to elongated body. The longitudinal ribs are optionally elastically shiftable between a collapsed state and an expanded state relative to the spinal longitudinal axis, in order to retract or/and support periurethral tissue. Optionally the system includes an implant extraction handle. The extraction handle is optionally positioned proximally to the elongated body and connected to the longitudinal rib and subject to a pulling force to facilitate and/or force approximation of the longitudinal supports to the longitudinal axis. In some embodiments, an implant body includes longitudinally spaced arched members, interconnected via arch ends sequentially along a length of a first and second longitudinal rib.

Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for managing and/or treating body tissues obstructing a hollow body lumen, including the prostatic lobe tissues obstructing the urethra, for example conditions including benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), bladder outlet obstruction (BOO), benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) and associated lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). A retrieval sheath having an elongated shaft member with at least one region of modified flexibility that is configured compress the implant to a reduced profile for removal from the patient's body.

Abstract: A flow control device (241, 260, 300, 350, 450, 480, 500) for a bronchial passageway including: a one-way valve (273, 313, 360, 478, 511); a hollow structural frame (242, 302, 352, 453, 468, 509) housing the one-way valve, wherein the structural frame is expandable from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration; and a sealing membrane (316, 470, 512) mounted to at least a distal portion of the structural frame, wherein the sealing membrane forms an enclosed wall defining at least a portion of an airflow passage through the flow control device, and the one-way valve is included in the airflow passage.

Abstract: A flow diversion device for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms and other medical conditions is disclosed. The flow diversion device may include a generally tubular wire stent frame formed from a plurality of zig-zag shaped wire elements that are coupled together. The device further includes a base layer of graft material coupled to the wire stent frame and surrounding at least a portion thereof, the wire stent frame maintaining the base layer in an open condition. In some embodiments, the base layer may be formed of porous graft material having a plurality of slits formed in the longitudinal direction. The slits may have a different shape in a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration. The slits provide a passageway for a small blood flow to maintain the long-term patency of important small side branches, while also reducing blood flow to the aneurysm to promote occlusion and avoid potential rupture.

Abstract: The disclosed composite scaffold provides a highly porous and flexible structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement of the repair or reconstruction-first via scaffold mechanical properties, and subsequently, through newly regenerated functional tissue as the scaffold is resorbed.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an implantable medical device comprising a hybrid composite material including a first biological component such as an acellular tissue matrix and a second non-biological component for strengthening the device after implantation.

Abstract: A surgical fixation device and driver for fixing soft tissue in a desired position relative to bone. The fixation device includes a pronged upper portion having two arms extending proximally therefrom to a top surface of the upper portion. Each of the two arms has a side and the sides are opposing sides. The fixation device also includes a flange extending outwardly around each of the opposing sides. The fixation device additionally has a pronged lower portion having two legs extending distally therefrom with a space between the two legs. The upper portion of the fixation device is configured to attach to a surgical driver. The surgical driver has a handle with a body and a shaft extending distally therefrom. A driver interface at a distal end of the shaft is configured for attachment to the fixation device. The driver additionally includes a rotatable adjustment mechanism within the body.

Abstract: Extension devices for attaching hair extension elements to artificial hair elements that protrude from a subcutaneously implanted hair implant anchor body. One extension device involves a cylindrical structure having respective cavities on opposing ends. One cavity receives the distal end of the artificial hair element while the other cavity receives the hair extension therein. Another extension device involves a hair extension element forming a first portion of the device while a second opposite portion includes a projection that is received inside a hollow interior of the artificial hair element. A third extension device involves a core having a hair extension element projecting from one side of the core while a single cavity is located on a second side, opposite the one side, and which receives the distal end of the artificial implanted hair element therein. The hair extension may comprise ancillary hair elements and bud structures.

Abstract: Extension devices for attaching hair extension elements to artificial hair elements that protrude from a subcutaneously implanted hair implant anchor body. One extension device involves a cylindrical structure having respective cavities on opposing ends. One cavity receives the distal end of the artificial hair element while the other cavity receives the hair extension therein. Another extension device involves a hair extension element forming a first portion of the device while a second opposite portion includes a projection that is received inside a hollow interior of the artificial hair element. A third extension device involves a core having a hair extension element projecting from one side of the core while a single cavity is located on a second side, opposite the one side, and which receives the distal end of the artificial implanted hair element therein. The hair extension may comprise ancillary hair elements and bud structures.

Abstract: Extension devices for attaching hair extension elements to artificial hair elements that protrude from a subcutaneously implanted hair implant anchor body. One extension device involves a cylindrical structure having respective cavities on opposing ends. One cavity receives the distal end of the artificial hair element while the other cavity receives the hair extension therein. Another extension device involves a hair extension element forming a first portion of the device while a second opposite portion includes a projection that is received inside a hollow interior of the artificial hair element. A third extension device involves a core having a hair extension element projecting from one side of the core while a single cavity is located on a second side, opposite the one side, and which receives the distal end of the artificial implanted hair element therein. The hair extension may comprise ancillary hair elements and bud structures.

Abstract: A device for inserting a pre-filled or silicone prosthesis into a surgical pocket is formed from a sleeve formed of a bottom layer and a top layer attached to the bottom layer along longitudinal edges of the bottom layer and top layer. The top layer has a greater width than the bottom layer so as to form a half-cylinder shape when the sleeve is filled. The sleeve has a constant cross-sectional area along a length of the sleeve. This device reduces the chances for the implant to rotate in an unintended manner due to the non-circular cross-section of the sleeve.

Abstract: A memory material fixation device is provided that is suitable for tissue fixation, including intraocular fixation, and has a main body that can be compressed elongated or shortened within a delivery system and a collapsible catch-shaped end that can pass through a material in a collapsed state to catch on an opposite surface of the material when in an expanded state to achieve fixation. A delivery system can hold the memory material fixation device in a constrained fashion, compressing the collapsible catch-shaped end in the collapsed state. Once a target structure has been traversed by the delivery system and a hole made in a material of the structure, the collapsible catch-shaped end of the fixation device is deployed from the delivery system, whereupon the collapsible catch-shaped end of the fixation device expands to take its neutral-stress shape of the expanded state to achieve fixation.

Abstract: There is provided an intraocular lens injector capable of smoothly performing an operation when an intraocular lens is injected, the intraocular lens injector, including: a hollow body 5 having a lens setting portion 11 on which an intraocular lens 4 is set; a plunger 9 that moves through an inside of the hollow body 5 in an axial direction of the hollow body 5; a pushing member 10 that pushes out the intraocular lens 4 from the lens setting portion 11 by moving together with the plunger 9, through the inside of the hollow body 5, and toward front part of the axial direction of the hollow body 5; a first flange 14a protruded from an outer circumferential surface of the hollow body 5; and a second flange 14b arranged on a rear end side with respect to the first flange and protruded from the outer circumferential surface of the hollow body 5; wherein the hollow body 5 is configured so that a shape on the A direction side toward a center of gravity of the hollow body 5 in which the first flange 14a is arra

Abstract: A system and method of treating target tissue in a patient's eye, which includes generating a light beam, deflecting the light beam using a scanner to form first and second treatment patterns, delivering the first treatment pattern to the target tissue to form an incision that provides access to an eye chamber of the patient's eye, and delivering the second treatment pattern to the target tissue to form a relaxation incision along or near limbus tissue or along corneal tissue anterior to the limbus tissue of the patient's eye to reduce astigmatism thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to an artificial eye lens comprising an optical part, which has a first optical side as viewed in a direction of an optical principal axis of the artificial eye lens and an opposite second optical side, wherein a structure with at least one depression is formed in a haptic arrangement of the artificial eye lens and/or in a surround that surrounds the optical part at least in certain areas and that differs from the haptic arrangement, wherein the structure is formed as a micro-perforation with a multiplicity of perforation zones and at least some perforation zones are filled at least in certain areas with at least one medicament for the purposes of producing a medicament repository. The invention also relates to a method for producing such an artificial eye lens.