Kicker: Eye-opening dentistry

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Brent Chapman was blind for decades… before receiving the gift of sight again…through his tooth.

Yeah, his tooth. Surgeons pulled a tooth, drilled a hole in it, inserted a little lens, and then implanted it into his eye. Because it’s material from his own body, it won’t be rejected.

The technique isn’t new but for Chapman, the results certainly were! And when he made eye contact with his doctor for the first time?

BRENT CHAPMAN: We both just burst into tears. I hadn’t really made eye contact in 20 years.

Here’s his doctor, Greg Maloney:

GREG MALONEY: To watch them come back into the world? It’s an incredibly rewarding feeling.

Chapman’s vision in that eye is now around 20/40…meaning he can read, walk without a cane, even shoot some hoops.

CHAPMAN: It’s a whole new world.

I bet! It’s The World and Everything in It.

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