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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039625722000054
this sorta goes into the ideas behind corneal implants in general, and why people would think using parts of your own body is a good idea, but i want to know what he was doing when he first thought "why not teeth?"
I'm imagining a Human Centipede type mad doctor who did it to create an unholy affront to medical ethics and then lucked out.
He's pacing in his lab all "no one understands my genius" and wildly cackling and then everyone's like "damn doc this works to restore sight even when somone had super damaged corneas and it's way less likely to get rejected! you're a genius!" so then he has to go on to like be a major figure in his field instead of figuring out how to make fingers with teeth or whatever else he had planned.