<div>Thank you so much for sharing!!!<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Melinda Jones<br>National Federation of the blind of South Carolina<br>\u201c alone we can do so little, together we can do so much\u201d. Helen Keller </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 05:17 Steve Cook via NFBofSC <<a href="mailto:nfbofsc@nfbnet.org">nfbofsc@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div lang="EN-US" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_3201301911326361332WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tooth-in-eye-surgery-corrects-vision-loss-1.7602011" target="_blank">Original Source</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3201301911326361332detail-link-label"><b><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117)">British Columbia</span></a></b></span><u></u><u></u></p><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.05pt;margin-left:0in"><span lang="EN" style="color:black">A decade after losing her sight, a B.C. woman can see again \u2014 through her tooth<u></u><u></u></span></h1><h2 style="margin-top:12pt;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.5rem"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight:normal;color:black">Gail Lane was among Canada's first round of tooth-in-eye surgery patients, calls it a success<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)"><img border="0" width="114" height="114" style="width: 1.1916in; height: 1.1916in; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_12"><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_3201301911326361332authortext"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/author/jacqueline-gelineau-1.7593702" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,80,200)">Jacqueline Gelineau</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)"> <span class="m_3201301911326361332bullet" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">· </span>CBC News <span class="m_3201301911326361332bullet" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">· </span>Posted: Aug 09, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 10<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="780" height="439" style="width: 8.125in; height: 4.575in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_11" alt="A woman hugs a black dog on a sofa."><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gail Lane was able to see the wagging tail of her partner's service dog, Piper, after 10 years without sight \u2014 thanks to a new surgery method that involves implanting a tooth into a patient's eye socket. (Submitted by Gail Lane)<u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">After 10 years without sight, a Victoria, B.C., woman saw her partner's face and her dog's wagging tail this year for the very first time, thanks to a tooth surgically implanted into her eye socket. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gail Lane, 75, was one of three Canadians to undergo the rare tooth-in-eye surgery, technically called osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis, in February.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lane lost her sight ten years ago due to complications from an auto-immune disorder that caused scarring to her corneas.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">In the weeks that followed the complex two-part surgery, she gradually regained her ability to see.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img border="0" width="1180" height="885" style="width: 12.2916in; height: 9.2166in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_10" alt="A woman holds a dress in a bedroom."><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gail Lane usually relies on a volunteer-driven app to help pick out her clothes, but says she can select her own outfits. (Submitted by Gail Lane)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">First, Lane said, she was able to see light. Then, she could see movement and the wagging tail of Piper, her partner's service dog, became perceptible.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Eventually, Piper the black Labrador came into focus, as did bits of the world around her. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_3201301911326361332similarlistitem" style="margin-left:0.25in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"I can see lots of colour and I can see outside now. The trees and the grass and flowers, it's a wonderful feeling to be able to see some of those things again," said Lane. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">She met her partner Phil after she lost her sight, and had never seen his face before. Nearly six months after the tooth in eye surgery was completed, Lane saw him for the first time.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><strong><i><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">LISTEN | Canada's first tooth-in-eye surgery patient can see:</span></i></strong><span class="m_3201301911326361332mediaembed"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;background:repeat rgb(203,203,203)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img border="0" width="620" height="349" style="width: 6.4583in; height: 3.6333in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_9"></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span class="m_3201301911326361332media-showname"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">On The Coast</span></b></span><span class="m_3201301911326361332media-title"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Canada's first tooth-in-eye surgery patient can see</span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span class="m_3201301911326361332media-caption"><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84)">Gail Lane was among the the first Canadians to undergo tooth-in-eye surgery to regain her vision. We check in with how phase two of that surgery went.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"I'm starting to see facial features on other people as well, which is also pretty exciting," said Lane. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">She hasn't been able to see her own face in detail yet, but hopes that too will come with time \u2014 aided by a new pair of glasses that she will be receiving soon.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">And Lane can now pick out her own outfits without help from a volunteer app service called Be My Eyes, which she had relied on to ensure her clothes matched.<u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 style="font-size:1.625rem"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">First in Canada<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">While the surgery has been done in other parts of the world, ophthalmologist Dr. Greg Moloney from Vancouver's Mount Saint Joseph Hospital was the first to bring the operation to Canada. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"It's a complex and strange operation, but it basically involves replacing the cornea," said Moloney. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img border="0" width="1180" height="886" style="width: 12.2916in; height: 9.225in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_8" alt="A grey-haired man in a suit sits next to a computer in front of an eye exam chair and machine. "><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dr. Greg Moloney is an an ophthalmologist and surgeon at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver. ( Providence Health Care)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">He said the surgery begins by removing a tooth from the patient's mouth. The tooth is then implanted into their cheek for several month, until it is encompassed in strong connective tissue.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Both the tooth and connective tissue are then removed, and a plastic focusing telescope or lens is inserted into it. Using the connective tissue as an anchor, the tooth and new lens are sutured into the patient's eye socket.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"We need a structure that is strong enough to hold onto the plastic focusing telescope, but is not going to be rejected by the body," Moloney explained.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img border="0" width="1180" height="787" style="width: 12.2916in; height: 8.2in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_7" alt="A bloody tooth with a hole drilled into it next to a ruler showing it's about 1.5 centimetres long"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Osteo-Odonto Keratoprostheseis \u2014 or as it\u2019s more commonly known, tooth-in-eye surgery \u2014 involves removing a patient's tooth, drilling a hole in it and using it as a casing for a small lens. (Greg Moloney/Providence Health Care )<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lane said the surgeries and recovery were uncomfortable but not painful. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"It's been a long, it's been a long wait, but well, well worth it."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lane said she is most excited to have her independence back. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"I'm hoping to have more mobility and independence in terms of short trips and walks here and there where I don't always have to have someone's arm for me to grab onto."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:18pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"I'm just looking forward, really, to seeing what I can do or do again \u2014 and trying to just be patient and let my brain adjust a bit because that's another big part of this."<u></u><u></u></span></p><h2 style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:20.4pt"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;text-transform:uppercase;color:black">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="1180" height="1180" style="width: 12.2916in; height: 12.2916in;" id="m_3201301911326361332Picture_x0020_6"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/author/jacqueline-gelineau-1.7593702" target="_blank">Jacqueline Gelineau</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_3201301911326361332authorprofile-title" style="margin-bottom:0in">Journalist<u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_3201301911326361332authorprofile-biography" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:19.5pt;margin-top:1rem">Jacqueline Gelineau is a CBC journalist based in Salmon Arm. 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