Science Ol’ Tooth Eye
posted by on February 27 at 14:20 PM
The headline is a weird one…
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eye
…and the story is even freakier:
After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient’s own tooth and the surrounding bone.
The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
McNichol’s right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.
Insert dumb pun about eye teeth here.
It's kinda beyond the realm of comment.
amazing, the creativity and skill of the people that came up with this
How do you come up with a procedure like that?
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