Ian Tibbets lost his vision after a corneal injury. His treatment took an unusual surgical path: using a tooth to support a lens inside the eye. 🦷👁️
Medical Xpress reported his case on October 9, 2013, and noted that Tibbets was a candidate for the OOKP technique.
The procedure uses a tooth along with part of the bone; this piece is adapted to hold a plastic lens and then implanted inside the eye as a support.
The tooth does not replace vision: it helps keep the lens in place.
Ian was able to see with the help of this lens. The surgery turns a part of the body into the support the eye needs to focus: a clinical solution that is as meticulous as it is unusual.