The eye's natural crystalline lens can be replaced with an artificial lens—known as an intraocular lens—to restore clarity and lead to a vast improvement in quality of life for patients with cataracts ...

Most people have a relative, friend or neighbor who has had to deal with a cataract. Nearly 24.5 million Americans age 40 or older are affected by cataracts, and it’s the leading cause of blindness ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (WKRC/CBC/CNN Newsource) — A man can now see again after undergoing tooth-in-eye surgery. Brent Chapman, a Canadian man who lost his sight more than two decades ago, can ...

• By age 80, over half of all Americans have cataracts. • Close to 4 million cataract surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. • Over 90% of patients have 20/20 vision with glasses after ...

A San Diego woman is one of the first in the nation to trade her bifocals for a new eye implant called "Restore". Here's how it works. Barbara's eye is numbed and cleaned. Through a microscope, 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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A Canadian man who could not see had his eyesight restored due to a surprising source—his teeth. Doctors in Vancouver implanted Brent Chapman’s tooth in his eyes in a jaw-dropping procedure. “It is a ...

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 ...

The gynaecologist, blind for years due to glaucoma and previous surgical complications, has had her vision miraculously restored through a groundbreaking eye surgery offering new hope for complex ...