Weird Health Wednesdays: A Tooth in Your Eye, Seeds for the Future, and a Dental Spa

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Amy

Son’s Tooth Makes Blind Irish Man See
Clearly, this story has to go first.
It explains a real procedure called osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) that a British surgeon performed on 57 year-old Bob McNichol. His son donated a tooth and a small portion of jawbone, which the doctor then implanted with a cornea replacement and stuck inside Bob’s eye […]

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