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 ...

A surgeon will extract one of her teeth, drill a hole into it, insert a tiny plastic lens, and then—three months later—implant the entire structure into her eye. The procedure, called osteo ...

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 embedding it in the eye Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Gail Lane lost her ...

A Canadian woman, blind for ten years, regained her vision through a tooth-in-eye surgery at Vancouver's Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. The procedure involved implanting a modified tooth into her eye.

This modified tooth is then temporarily implanted into the patient's cheek, where it develops new tissue and vascularization. Meanwhile, the eye is prepared to receive the implant. Surgeons remove ...

IMAGINE how difficult it would be to live a life where you have to conceal your teeth whenever you want to ... Additionally, keep an eye on the fluoride level of the water children drink, whether ...

The tooth-in-eye procedure involves extracting one of the patient’s teeth– typically a canine– and placing a small optical lens inside. This modified tooth is then implanted in the patient ...

Brent Chapman, a 33-year-old from North Vancouver in Canada, is one of the first Canadians to undergo osteoodonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP), commonly known as tooth-in-eye surgery. Initially ...

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 ...

A blind Canadian woman, Gail Lane, is undergoing a groundbreaking "tooth-in-eye" surgery at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver, marking the first such procedure in Canada. The rare surgery ...