Tooth Surgically Placed In Eye Repairs Sight

I know this sounds weird, but there is a surgical procedure that uses a tooth implanted in the eye to help some types of blindness. It’s called..

Osteo-Odonto-KeratoProsthesis or OOKP:
Osteo=Bone
Odonto=Tooth
Kerato=In this case corneal tissue of the eye
Prothesis=artificial replacement of a body part
Here are a few links:
Opthalmology Report-OOKP in Detail
Here is a CNN Report on this:

One Response to “Tooth Surgically Placed In Eye Repairs Sight”

  1. Jeanette Louisa Vincent`e says:

    Oh!!! my goodness fantastic who ever would have thought that would be possible :-)

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