Blind 9 years,woman regains sight through tooth!

[gmanlook]

JUST WONDERING IF YOU HEARD ABOUT THIS!!
Miami---A 60 year old woman blind for nine years has regained useful vision following a rare operation in Miami in which surgeons removed one of her teeth (eye tooth?), drilled a hole in it, inserted a plastic lens into the hole and implanted the tooth-lens combination into her eye. It's the first such operation in the U.S. they said. With 20/70 vision now, Sharron "Kay" Thornton, of Smithdale Miss. can recognize faces, read with a magnifier and should get better vision once she has healed and fitted with glasses.

Not sure what paper it was published in, but very interesting. Gary:drop:

[gmanlook]

The procedure is called osteo-odontokeratoprosthesis. It was developed by Benedeteo Strampelli a Italian doctor. Gary

[drk]

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