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

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 ...

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

Her surgery was performed ... carried out the tooth-in-eye procedure on seven patients in his home country of Australia. A canine tooth (aka eyetooth) fitted with a plastic optical lens before ...

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 ...

For the first time in Canada, surgeons have successfully carried out the first stage of a procedure involving implanting a tooth into the eyes of people with a type of severe blindness in the ...