When Brent Chapman first heard his doctor suggest surgically implanting one of his own teeth into his eye to restore his vision, he admits he felt apprehensive. But after speaking to an Australian ...

A tooth to restore vision: what seems like something out of a science fiction novel is, in fact, a medical reality. A rare procedure, called osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP), uses a tooth ...

The complex procedure involves extracting a patient’s canine tooth, adding a plastic optical lens to it and surgically ...

Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis, more commonly known as “tooth-in-eye” surgery, involves harvesting the body’s strongest natural substance to craft a specialized lens implant for patients with ...

Some specialists say procedure is too complex to catch on in U.S. In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never before done in the United States that restored her sight.

Her surgery was performed by Dr. Greg Moloney, an ophthalmologist at Providence Health Care in Vancouver who's previously carried out the tooth-in-eye procedure on seven patients in his home ...

After a decade of blindness, Gail Lane, a Canadian woman, is hoping to regain her sight thanks to a rare and innovative procedure known as "tooth-in-eye" surgery. Performed at Mount Saint Joseph ...

Explore the groundbreaking Canadian first surgery to restore vision for patients affected by Stevens Johnson Syndrome and ...

we are trying to really just replace a clear window on the front of the eye. ‘And the tooth is the perfect structure to hold a focusing piece of plastic or a telescope for the patient to see ...

After years of blindness, Brent Chapman underwent tooth-in-eye surgery in Canada, where a tooth is used to implant a lens in the eye. A man in Canada had his eyesight restored after doctors ...

Chapman, who is blind in both eyes, is one of three Canadians undergoing osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) — or as it's more commonly known, tooth-in-eye surgery — at a B.C. hospital this week.