A battery-powered, hand-held rotating device designed to perform corneal, and other ophthalmic tissue, abrasion through a bur attached to its distal tip. The device typically stops if the pressure on the tissue (e.g., cornea) is beyond a pre-established limit. It is used (with appropriate burs) to clean rust rings from the cornea after the extraction of a ferrous foreign object, to polish corneal scratches and/or the pterygium bed after surgical removal, and/or for abrasion of lid margin lesions. This is a reusable device.