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

A surgical procedure to restore the power of sight to blind patients using ... surgery is complete. Watch this animation below for an overview of the procedure. Tooth implanted into the eye ...

This tooth-in-eye surgery isn’t brand new—it was first developed in Italy decades ago. But Canada just started doing it in 2025, and it’s already giving hope to people with severe vision loss.

Meanwhile, the eye is prepared to receive the implant ... with simple activities like reading or traveling. To go further: Why use a tooth in this surgery? The use of a tooth in OOKP relies on unique ...

It might sound like something straight out of a science fiction plot, but this incredible surgery ... wild to believe: using his own tooth to restore his vision. The tooth-in-eye procedure ...

Tooth-in-eye surgery aims to change that in the space ... but “there is no risk of rejection, because we're using part of the patient's own body.” The trio of patients are set to undergo ...

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.

After years of blindness, Brent Chapman underwent tooth-in-eye surgery in Canada ... "There is no risk of rejection, because we're using part of the patient's own body," he said, A few months ...

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 ...