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 ...

A 2022 study out of Italy found that, 27 years post-surgery, 94% of patients still had vision. Moloney himself has done seven successful tooth in eye surgeries in Australia before bringing his ...

Pioneered by Italian ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s, tooth-in-eye surgery is intended to minimize ...

The procedure involves removing a patient's tooth, installing a plastic optical lens inside it and then implanting the whole thing in the eye ... A 2022 Italian study found 94% of patients ...

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 ...

When Brent Chapman’s doctor first pitched him on the idea of having one of his own teeth surgically embedded in his eye to restore his sight, he says he felt “a little apprehensive.” ...

Called “tooth-in-eye” surgery, the procedure is what it ... Historically, patient outcomes have been positive. In a 2022 study, researchers followed 59 patients who had the surgery on 82 ...

Gail Lane has never seen the face of the man she loves. A decade ago, she lost her vision, leaving her with only memories of ...

First, a tooth is removed, shaped and fitted with a lens. The patient’s eye is prepared by removing ... with a 2022 Italian study showing 94% of patients retained vision 27 years post-surgery.

After years of blindness, Brent Chapman underwent tooth-in-eye surgery in Canada ... including the UK and Australia. A 2022 study in Italy found that, on average, 27 years after surgery, 94% ...

An Italian study published in 2022 found that 94% of patients ... This process, called neovascularization, prepares the tooth for its future role in the eye. Once transplanted, it acts as a stable and ...