What exactly is tooth-in-eye surgery, and how does it help people see again? Picture a solution so unusual it sounds like something from a science fiction movie: doctors using a tooth to help someone ...

A diabetic woman faced sudden blindness after a tooth extraction. Doctors diagnosed a severe eye infection, metastatic endophthalmitis. This condition occurs when bacteria travel from the mouth to the ...

Doctors in Florida restore a woman's sight by implanting a tooth in her eye. Sept. 17, 2009— -- Forget about an eye for an eye -- doctors in Florida have taken a blind woman's tooth, and used it ...

Brent Chapman lost his vision at 13 years old after experiencing a rare allergic reaction Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared ...

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that ...

VANCOUVER, Canada (WABC) -- After going blind nearly 21 years ago, Brent Chapman has had some of his vision restored, thanks to an extraordinary medical procedure known as "tooth-in-eye" surgery in ...

Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. It seems bizarre, but the ...