Pioneered by Italian ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s, tooth-in-eye surgery is intended to minimize ...
When Brent Chapman first heard his doctor suggest surgically implanting one of his own teeth into his eye to restore his ...
The complex procedure involves extracting a patient’s canine tooth, adding a plastic optical lens to it and surgically ...
F 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 ...