A blind Canadian man could soon see again thanks ... “It is a rare operation that most people have not heard of, even if you are an eye surgeon,” Dr. Greg Moloney, an ophthalmologist and ...

When Brent Chapman's doctor first pitched him on the ... 33-year old Chapman, who is blind in both eyes, was one of three Canadians undergoing osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) — or as ...

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

The surgery, described by Dr Greg Moloney as unfamiliar even to many eye surgeons ... modified tooth was then implanted in her cheek for three months, allowing it to develop the necessary ...

This previously untreatable genetic disorder, which affects some two to three of every 10 million newborn babies, leads to ...