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 ...

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

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 ...

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.