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Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye
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| 2-27-2008
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Posted on 02/27/2008 12:11:22 PM PST by Red Badger
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.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: blind; freepun; health; medical; regenerativemedicine
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To: Red Badger
I guess we really DO have eyeteeth!.............. Good grief. . .you're right! lol.
Am amazed but what gave them the idea. . .oh, that's right. . .maybe just curious about those 'eye teeth'. . .
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posted on
02/27/2008 1:24:45 PM PST
by
cricket
(Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
To: CarrotAndStick
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posted on
02/27/2008 1:26:52 PM PST
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: martin_fierro; Red Badger; Charles Henrickson
The surgeons just hope he doesn’t develop Osteo-Odonto-Prosthetic Syndrome (OOPS) to ovoid a malpractice suit...
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posted on
02/27/2008 1:35:09 PM PST
by
mikrofon
("The Tooth Is In There.")
To: martin_fierro; aculeus; MozarkDawg; Billthedrill; Tax-chick; AnAmericanMother; Constitution Day; ...
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eyeJust your humdrum daily fare in the family life of Christy Brown.
;-)
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posted on
02/27/2008 7:28:16 PM PST
by
dighton
To: dighton; The Spirit Of Allegiance
Eye doubt there’s any tooth to this.
To: callisto; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:16:10 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
I scream for eye-scream. I wonder if he gets a toothache when it’s really cold?
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:54:46 PM PST
by
callisto
(CONGRESS.SYS corrupted...Re-boot Washington DC (Y/N)?)
To: Grizzled Bear; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Bite me!
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posted on
02/27/2008 10:20:38 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: Slings and Arrows; Fiddlstix; potlatch; nicmarlo; y'all
Well, Eye’ll be darned !!! :^D
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posted on
02/27/2008 10:27:19 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
An eye for a tooth, and a tooth for an eye - or something like that.
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posted on
02/28/2008 6:23:20 AM PST
by
xJones
To: CarrotAndStick; martin_fierro
To: Red Badger
Would it have been faster if he’d just bitten his dad in the eye?
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posted on
02/28/2008 6:29:10 AM PST
by
xJones
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
02/28/2008 7:16:35 AM PST
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: Grizzled Bear; callisto; Slings and Arrows
Why am I reminded of The Corinthian from Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” series?
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posted on
02/28/2008 9:10:44 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)
To: MeekOneGOP
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:26:08 PM PST
by
nicmarlo
(A vote for McRino is a false mandate for McShamnesty)
To: Red Badger; Coleus; Peach; airborne; Asphalt; Dr. Scarpetta; I'm ALL Right!; StAnDeliver; ...
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posted on
02/29/2008 11:52:24 AM PST
by
neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: Constitution Day
That’s EYE OPENING!...........
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posted on
02/29/2008 12:13:45 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger
Eye know.
To: VRWCmember
Very cute. This is pretty amazing no matter how you “look” at it.
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
I just cracked up reading your post. Who thinks up this stuff? I’m thinking it all started some years back when some poor soul went blind and maybe he was pulling out his little kiddie’s tooth and the tooth went errant and struck him in the eye and voila!
Who knows.....
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