A foreign body was extracted from his eye and later identified as part of a tooth – the man’s right lower first premolar. The patient’s vision was significantly reduced two weeks after the ...

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

When he finally tweezed it open, he found a tooth fragment from a shark that bit him in 1994. DNA from the tooth revealed he was bitten by a blacktip.

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.

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.” ...

“All you could see were bones and teeth, embedded in the walls and in the ceiling of this cave.” While most of the recovered fossils were from nonhuman mammals, protein fragments taken from the enamel ...

where a tooth is used to implant a lens in the eye. A man in Canada had his eyesight restored after doctors performed a surgery that required one of his teeth to be surgically embedded into his eye.