DUBLIN (AFP) – 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.
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The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
Definition from encarta: implanted corneal lens – a plastic lens cemented into a section of decalcified tooth that is then stitched into an opening cut in a totally opaque cornea to restore vision. The lens may be implanted after normal corneal grafting has failed.
Man, what an unusual surgery.
Then you read about a crazy Canuck flying overseas to have a tattoo in his eye.
http://tinyurl.com/ywohfe
Both make me squeamish.
Or eyeball these latest PETA naked protest pics.
http://tinyurl.com/yuo2ex
Obviously not safe for eyes.
That’s nothing. My son couldn’t hear for the longest time. I put my foot up his rectum and suddenly his hearing is a lot better.
must have been his eye tooth.
#1 – Ow
#2 – Eeewww
#3 – Ha
#4 – Boooo
LOL
Aluminium DOESN’T get ‘read hot’!
It melts into a slivery liquid similar in appearance to mercury.
Toothache In My Eye.
so where’s the BS-meter
[It’s real. – ed.]
The worst part will be the flossing.
ok that fuct