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

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

A surgical procedure to restore the power of sight to blind patients using their teeth is slowly gaining traction around the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Yes, you read that right. Earlier this week, Brent Chapman underwent one of Canada’s first-ever “tooth in eye” surgeries. While it might sound like something straight out of science fiction ...

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.