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Tooth Is Implanted in 34-year-old's Eye to Restore His Vision After Two Decades

Tooth Is Implanted in 34-year-old's Eye to Restore His Vision After Two Decades
health9/16/2025

The tooth-in-eye surgery is very rare—so rare that despite being pioneered in the 1960s Chapman is the first Canadian ever to receive it.

There’s an old Babylonian/Biblical legal maxim that goes, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” For Canadian Brent Chapman, his new maxim is “a tooth for an eye,” because he has become the first in his country ever to receive an osteo-odonto-kera... [3602 chars]