Pioneered by Italian ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s, tooth-in-eye surgery is intended to minimize ...

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

The complex procedure involves extracting a patient’s canine tooth, adding a plastic optical lens to it and surgically ...

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 ...

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.” ...

When it’s time for the second surgery, Chapman’s tooth will be removed from his cheek and placed into his eyeball. Moloney and his team will pull back the graft, remove the damaged iris and ...

Antibiotic prophylaxis may lower the risk of dry socket (DS) and surgical site infection (SSI) following lower third-molar (LM3) extraction, according to a study recently ... "Low-level evidence ...