Rayner (company)

Rayner (company)

Rayner based in Brighton & Hove East Sussex is a British manufacturer of intraocular lenses and associated surgical instruments. With Sir Harold Ridley, they were pioneers in the field from 1949 when Ridley successfully implanted the first intraocular lens at St Thomas Hospital, London.

In 1952 the first IOL implant was performed in the United States, a Ridley-Rayner lens implanted at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.

A lens designed by Ridely's pupil Peter Choyce was the first to be approved as "safe and effective" and approved for use in the USA by the Food and Drug Administration in 1981. These first FDA approved lenses, (Choyce Mark VIII and Choyce Mark IX Anterior Chamber lenses) were manufactured by Rayner.

External links

* [http://www.rayner.com/about.php Rayner's Web site]


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