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.

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 ...

Explore the groundbreaking Canadian first surgery to restore vision for patients affected by Stevens Johnson Syndrome and ...

But Thornton's eye was too dry. When he first saw her ... "We used to hear about this surgery with the tooth, and we thought, 'How can people do this?' It seemed to be very far-fetched," Perez ...

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.