A Canadian person who could not see was a surprising source -his vision was restored due to his teeth. Vancouver doctors implanted Brent Chapman’s teeth in their eyes in the jaw process.

An ophthalmologist and surgeon at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver. Greg Moloni said, “This is a rare operation, which most people have not heard of, even though you are an eye surgeon,” Vancouver’s Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, an ophthalmologist and surgeon at the Hospital. Greg Moloni told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The procedure, known as osteo-odonto keratoprostasis, or oopy, uses a patient’s own tooth to prepare a support structure for an artificial cornea.

How did surgery occur?

The surgery performed on Chapman was broken into two parts: First, Moloni and his team removed a tooth of Chapman, shaved it in a rectangle, drilled a hole, and popped a plastic optical lens inside. The teeth remained in position for about three months.

Dr. In the meantime, Moloni prepared the eye of champon by removing the upper layer of the surface and replacing it with a soft tissue graft from inside the patient’s cheek. This graft requires a few months to heal so that it can support the implant. Dr. Moloni said the initial process went smoothly, and Chapman would be closely monitored in the next few months. When the second surgery is the time, Chapman’s teeth will be removed from his cheek and placed in his eyeball.

“(Teeth) has no connective tissue that I can actually pass a seam to connect with the eyeball,” Dr. Moloni said. “So the matter of implanting it for three months is that this support is to obtain a layer of tissue.”

The graft will be pulled back, and then the damaged iris will be removed and the tooth with a new optical lens will be placed in the eye. However, Dr. Moloni said that there would be a small hole to peep through the lens.

How does a tooth help restore vision?

Dr. According to Moloni, there is a dentin in the teeth, which contains a plastic tissue that helps to form a cornea lining. “(Teeth) contains dentin, which is an ideal tissue to give a plastic lens a house without rejecting the body,” he said. In addition, the tissue from the cheek recognizes the tooth, making the entire process smooth.

However, according to experts, despite success, the product is also full of risks. “With any kind of ocular surgery of any kind, there is a chance that we can introduce the transition and lose all our visions,” Moloni told the CBC. Surgery is also not for everyone and it is said that there is a final option for those who are with corneal blindness in front of the eyes caused by autoimmune diseases, chemical burns and other trauma – but only those who are still in healthy retina and optic nerves.

Despite the risks, the process has been restoring vision for several decades with high success rates in at least ten countries. According to studies, even after 27 years surgery, at least 94 percent of patients still had vision.

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