Sight Restored Using Tooth In Eye (Say What?!?!)
February 29, 2008 | 8:54 pmHere’s a story on yahoo about an Irish man who had his ssight restored after surgeons implanted his son’s tooth in his eye socket and stuck a lens on it. This cannot be true. Update: Oh hell yes it is! Pretty amazing procedure. I found out a bit more about it. It’s called the Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) procedure. That pdf has all the details and a pictorial description is below:
Yea, it's true. I have one in my eye, and
Predrag | October 10, 2008 | 3:34 amYea, it’s true. I have one in my eye, and I can see very well. Seven years ago, I had hard chemical burn of my eyes, and I was blind to the last year. I live in Bosnia, and doctors in my coutry couldn’t help me. So, I went to Salzburg, Austria. Prof. Gunther Grabner did that surgery on my left eye. Operation was succesfull, and now I can see about 50 percent.