Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments - Human Eye, Visual Perception, Ophthalmology, Cornea, Stroma of Cornea, Refraction (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Intrastromal corneal rings (or intracorneal rings) are small devices implanted in the eye to correct vision. A typical vision correction using corneal rings would involve an ophthalmologist making a small incision in the cornea of the eye, and inserting two crescent or semi-circular shaped ring segments between the layers of the corneal stroma, one on each side of the pupil. The embedding of the rings in the cornea has the effect of flattening the cornea and changing the refraction of light passing through the cornea on its way into the eye.