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Sight Restored Using Tooth In Eye (Say What?!?!)

February 29, 2008 | 8:54 pm

Here’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:

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