Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw.
Everybody knows somebody with a wisdom tooth removal story: tales of cheek puffiness and recovery room, OMG-she-said-that?! abound. As a nurse, I considered wisdom teeth removal a minor procedure that ...
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Surgery implants tooth into eyeball to help blind patients see again
Canadian surgeons are giving new meaning to the term "eye teeth" by transplanting patients' own teeth into their eyes to ...
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Doctors implant tooth in blind man's eye to restore his vision in groundbreaking surgery
A man in Canada had his eyesight restored after doctors performed a surgery that required one of his teeth to be surgically embedded into his eye. When Brent Chapman's doctor first pitched him on the ...
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 ...
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