Man’s sight restored after his tooth is implanted in cheek then sewn into eye | News World [Video]

A surgeon has perfected a 60-year-old procedure to restore the eyesight of a man who was suddenly blinded after a freak allergic reaction.

Brent Chapman was just 13 when he took two ibuprofen tablets and suddenly started to suffer with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare but serious reaction caused by taking certain medicines.

He was rushed to hospital where he fell into a coma – but when he woke up about a month later, he was blind.

Over the years Brent, now 33, has had several corneal transplants to try and restore his vision.

But he’s now received a different type of surgery which sounds like something out of science fiction, which should restore his vision.

It’s called tooth-in-eye surgery, or osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, and it works exactly how the name suggests it will.

Dr Greg Moloney, a corneal surgeon at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, explained to CTV News: ‘In essence, we are …