Three blind Canadians could soon see again thanks to a surprising source: their teeth. Yes, you read that right. Over the past week, the trio of patients underwent Canada’s first-ever “tooth in eye” ...
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ZME Science on MSNShe Lost Her Vision a Decade Ago—Now a Tooth Implant Could Help Her See AgainGail Lane has never seen the face of the man she loves. A decade ago, she lost her vision, leaving her with only memories of ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNSurgeons Are Conducting Rare 'Tooth-in-Eye' Surgeries to Restore Vision to Blind Patients in CanadaGail Lane lost her eyesight ten years ago, the result of a bad reaction to prescription drugs. For the last decade, the ...
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Live Science on MSNNew stem cell therapy could repair 'irreversible' and blinding eye damage, trial findsA new therapy repairs corneal damage to a patient's eye using stem cells from their other, healthy eye. A new stem cell ...
An experimental stem cell therapy reversed corneal damage in half of the participants from a recent clinical trial.
Over time, the plastic that makes up your headlights will degrade and cloud over. If yours aren't shining quite like they ...
What if we told you the answer to blindness might lie in your own tooth? It might sound like something straight out of a science fiction plot, but thi ...
In a final procedure, doctors sew the implant into the eye socket under the cheek tissue transplant, where the lens helps partially restore sight. Previous surveys indicate many patients’ vision ...
When Brent Chapman’s doctor first pitched him on the idea of having one of his own teeth surgically embedded in his eye to restore his sight, he says he felt “a little apprehensive.” ...
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European project aims to develop new treatments for rare eye diseasesThe Ocular Neurobiology laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in Elche and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), is participating ...
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