What exactly is tooth-in-eye surgery, and how does it help people see again? Picture a solution so unusual it sounds like ...

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 ...

Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis, more commonly known as “tooth-in-eye” surgery, involves harvesting the body’s strongest natural substance to craft a specialized lens implant for patients with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chapman, who is blind in both eyes, is one of three Canadians undergoing osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) — or as it's more commonly known, tooth-in-eye surgery — at a B.C. hospital this week.

It’s called tooth-in-eye surgery, or osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, and it works exactly how the name suggests it will. A new eye is fashioned out of the patient’s tooth, a plastic tube ...

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 ...

A story that seems hard to believe claims Canada has just performed its first surgery in which a tooth is put in a patient's eye to restore sight. This one's true. The procedure involves removing ...