Miracle operation Osteo Odonto Keratoprosthesis, gives blind man sight back

It has been reported that An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye.

Bob McNichol who is 57 lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.

Bob heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis being performed at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.

The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient’s own tooth and the surrounding bone.

McNichol’s right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.

Bob said that “Now I have enough sight for me to get around and I can watch television. I have come out from complete darkness to be able to do simple things,”

I have never heard of this before but it looks like it worked

Would you have something like this done if it meant you can see again?

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