Dentist ‘An Arsenal’ in the Journey of ‘Tooth in the Eye’-the Osteo-Odonto-Kerato-Prosthesis [OOKP]

Background: Global blindness is mainly due to Cataract, after this Corneal disease is the major cause. For end stage corneal disease, the only successful treatment is by providing Osteo-Odonto-Kerato-Prosthesis (OOKP). The dental surgeon will play a vital role in this surgeon. After extracting a canine tooth from the patient, the dental surgeon places the acrylic lamina in the centre of the dentine (Dental Lamina) which acts like an ocular lens, later the Ophthalmic surgeon will place the same in the patient’s blind eye to get vision.

Review Results: After electronic search was done on the role of dental surgeon and OOKP , through PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Wiley Online, Science Direct Ebscohost and Google Scholar for articles published from 1960 to July 2022, using the Key words, Osteo-Odonto-Kerato Prosthesis (OOKP), Modified Osteo-Odonto-Kerato Prosthesis (MOOKP), Osteo-Odonto-Alveolar Lamina, Corneal Disease Tooth-in-Eye, and Poly Methyl Meth Acrylate (PMMA) Cylinder, finally 14 articles were found to be relevant for the present research topic.

Conclusion: Studies shows OOKP is providing vision and the success rate more than 85%. Not a single study mentioned the importance of a dental surgeon in OOKP surgery.

Clinical Significance: Though the dental curriculum not mentioned directly about the role of a dentist in the OOKP surgery, but all the dental surgeons should have knowledge on OOOKP Surgery.