Pioneered by Italian ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s, tooth-in-eye surgery is intended to minimize ...
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNSounds Like Science Fiction: Doctors Implant a Tooth in a Man’s Eye—Now He Can See AgainWhen Brent Chapman first heard his doctor suggest surgically implanting one of his own teeth into his eye to restore his ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNSurgeons Are Conducting Rare ‘Tooth-in-Eye’ Surgeries to Restore Vision to Blind Patients in CanadaThe complex procedure involves extracting a patient’s canine tooth, adding a plastic optical lens to it and surgically ...
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IFLScience on MSNSurgeons Can Implant Teeth In Blind Patients’ Eyes To Restore Their SightF or the first time in Canada, surgeons have successfully carried out the first stage of a procedure involving implanting a ...
The procedure is used to treat severe corneal blindness, especially in cases where traditional corneal transplants are not an ...
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. A man in Canada had his eyesight restored after doctors ...
The relatively new surgical method is safer, less traumatic and sees fewer complications than traditional treatment options ...
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