Elderly blind woman regains sight thanks to rare surgery that implants tooth into eye socket

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.

Gail Lane, 75, who lost her sight a decade ago when an auto-immune disorder left her corneas badly scarred, is one of three Canadians to receive the rare osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis procedure, known colloquially as tooth-in-eye surgery.

Gail Lane, 75, who lost her vision to an auto-immune disorder, is one of three Canadians to receive the rare “tooth-in-eye” procedure to restore their sight.
Gail Lane

Lane told the CBC that the first thing she was able to see was light, followed by the wagging tail of her partner’s service dog, a

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