Brent Chapman lost his vision at 13 years old after experiencing a rare allergic reaction Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared ...
The patient: A 34-year-old man named Brent Chapman in British Columbia, Canada The medical history: When Chapman was 13 years old, he had a rare and serious autoimmune reaction after taking a normal ...
When Brent Chapman first heard his doctor suggest surgically implanting one of his own teeth into his eye to restore his ...
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 ...
An eye for an eye and a tooth… for an eye? A blind Canadian woman has had her vision partly restored after undergoing a bizarre operation that surgically implanted a tooth into her left eye socket.