Surgeons can rebuild an eye's window out of one of your own teeth
The procedure is called osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or, less formally, "tooth in eye" surgery. A canine or premolar is pulled along with a piece of the surrounding jawbone. A thin slice is cut from the tooth, a hole is drilled through it, and a small plastic optical cylinder is fitted into the hole.
- ▪The procedure is called osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or, less formally, "tooth in eye" surgery.
- ▪A canine or premolar is pulled along with a piece of the surrounding jawbone.
- ▪A thin slice is cut from the tooth, a hole is drilled through it, and a small plastic optical cylinder is fitted into the hole.
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Surgeons can rebuild an eye's window out of one of your own teeth Ellsworth Toohey 7:30 am Tue Jul 28, 2026 tooth in eye surgery — Matt Ming from Beijing, China / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) When a patient's cornea is too scarred for a donor transplant to take — after a chemical burn, say, or Stevens–Johnson syndrome — surgeons have a fallback: they build a new window for the eye out of one of the patient's own teeth. The procedure is called osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or, less formally, "tooth in eye" surgery. A canine or premolar is pulled along with a piece of the surrounding jawbone. A thin slice is cut from the tooth, a hole is drilled through it, and a small plastic optical cylinder is fitted into the hole.
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