Not home safe either.
Posted on 07/03/2009 12:35:33 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Martin Jones is now able to see his wife for the first time - after having a tooth implanted into his eye.
The formerly blind man, from South Yorkshire, Great Britain, had one of his front teeth removed and turned into a lens holder that was then inserted in his right eye.
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Could have been worse. He could have ended up cockeyed.
Procedure is not new. From last year:
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eye
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977246/posts
An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.
“I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life,” McNichol told RTE state radio.
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.
The first operation lasted ten hours and the second five hours.
“It is pretty heavy going,” McNichol said. “There was a 65 percent chance of me getting any sight.
“Now I have enough sight for me to get around and I can watch television. I have come out from complete darkness to be able to do simple things,” McNichol said.
“U.K. Blind Man Sees Wife for First Time After Having Tooth Implanted in Eye...promptly files for divorce.”
“He devoured her with his eyes.”
OH CRAP!! NO, DON’T CLICK! DON’T CLICK! SORRY!! Don’t know how that happened!!
THIS ONE!!! My apologies again!
He would give his eye-tooth for just a moment of her presence
Not home safe either.
Does this mean he now has to be careful to not look off more than he can see?
I'm at work and the filter won't let anything through, but I cracked up when I saw your post.
LOL.
I suppose this means he’ll have to floss his eyes every morning?
“U.K. Blind Man Sees Wife for First Time After Having Tooth Implanted in Eye...promptly files for divorce.”
Pull the tooth out!
Truly amazing!!! God bless this guy.
That is incredible! Thx!
U.K. Blind Man Sees Wife for First Time
I trust he liked what he saw? ;-)
What happens when he gets a cavity in his eye?
Does he have to brush and floss the eye?
How does this jive with their socialized medical system?
That was STUPID!
...and flush with Listerine?
Was it an eye tooth?
It is now!;-)
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