Yeoh Toric IOL Manipulator

The new Yeoh Toric IOL Rotator was designed with a rounded ball-tip to make it much safer when rotating an IOL to dial into the correct position to correct the steep cornea at that meridian.

Toric lens implants are commonly implanted when a patient has significant corneal astigmatism. An integral part of the procedure is to dial the IOL into the correct position to correct the steep cornea at that meridian. Most surgeons use a Sinskey hook to engage the junction of haptic and optic to rotate the IOL. It is not commonly appreciated that the Sinskey hook was originally designed to fit into a dialing hole on the lens optic. The tip of a Sinskey hook is actually sharper than it needs to be (even though it appears blunt) and there is some risk of this tip engaging and tearing the underlying posterior capsule whilst rotating the lens. The new Yeoh Toric IOL Rotator was designed with a rounded ball-tip to make it much safer than the standard Sinskey hook when rotating an IOL. This is especially so in the presence of a small pupil when the surgeon has to reach blindly under the iris and anterior capsule to engage the haptic-optic angle.