Okay, one blog post for today
February 29, 2008
Because it’s cool.
Blind Irishman gets his sight restored when doctors insert his son’s tooth into his eye.
I’m not making that up, either.
Here…details:
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.
Who thinks this stuff up? I mean, seriously…who looks at the eyes and the teeth and thinks “Hey, we might be able to do something if we combine these things?” Just amazing.
