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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Søren on October 08, 2013, 01:24:20 am

Title: Your Tooth Is Stuck In My Eyeball
Post by: Søren on October 08, 2013, 01:24:20 am

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Ian Tibbetts, 43, first damaged his eye 16 years ago when a piece of scrap metal from an oven struck him in the right eye - ripping his cornea in six places.

So what do you do with your eye wound, shove a freakin tooth in it

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The procedure - called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) - involves the reconstruction of a new eye using a tiny plastic lens and one of the patient's own teeth.

 The lens is inserted into a hole drilled through the tooth, which is later implanted in the eye.

 And as long as the retina is still functioning, the lens then provides a new window through which the patient is able to see.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10352560/Blind-fathers-joy-of-seeing-twin-boys-after-tooth-implanted-in-eye.html

If that doesnt gross you out, heres what you look like after
(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/OOKP-procedure_ian-tibbetts.jpeg)
(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/384x216/p01j0nfl.jpg)
(http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/oaXfxFSCg9XIynMkEkCTOg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-10-03/a92bfe14-a246-4255-b327-2a41c580a5d2_NTI_TIBBETTS_TOOTH_EYE_06.jpg)

Title: Re: Your Tooth Is Stuck In My Eyeball
Post by: The Illusive Man on October 08, 2013, 02:23:43 am

So tempted to claim that those pictures are shooped.

I dare to say that the medical procedure reminds me of a hack, but I digress. So long as it works without future complications. If only stem cell research was not crippled, should have been able to grow him a new eye by now.

Title: Re: Your Tooth Is Stuck In My Eyeball
Post by: Dakota Bob on October 10, 2013, 08:25:36 am

Wow, are those photos uncomfortable to look at. Good for him though, getting to properly see his kids for the first time.

Title: Re: Your Tooth Is Stuck In My Eyeball
Post by: mellenORL on October 10, 2013, 11:34:22 am

So happy for him, but I hope they have given him a contact lens with a colored iris imprint for that eye.

Title: Re: Your Tooth Is Stuck In My Eyeball
Post by: Old Viking on October 10, 2013, 04:10:33 pm

If I had been the victim I would have reconciled myself to being called "One-Eye."