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Man able to see again through his tooth (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Apparently this surgery has been done since the 60's!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How the fuck did they figure that one out? Whoever had the idea was as odd a duck as the first person to make cheese.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining a Human Centipede type mad doctor who did it to create an unholy affront to medical ethics and then lucked out.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

At least cheese came about by accident, the originator did this on purpose! Madness.

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago

Grow your tooth into an eye while it's implanted in your cheek. Totally normal

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Does that make it his eye tooth?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Medical science is insane sometimes

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 6 points 4 months ago

Imagine needing that surgery, that really bites

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Gnarly

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 5 points 4 months ago

I thought he had transparent teeth from the headline.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

the corinthian from sandman.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did the Dr get a dentist to remove the tooth? Or can Dr's do dentist stuff and we've been tricked?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 4 months ago

Imagine going to a dentists and asking him to remove a healthy tooth so you can stick it in your eye...