I Looked In Her Eye And I Saw Her…Teeth?

I’ve heard of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, but this is a bit much

MIAMI A 60-year-old woman blind for nine years has regained useful vision following a rare operation in Miami in which surgeons removed one of her teeth, drilled a hole in it, inserted a plastic lens into the hole and implanted the tooth-lens combination into her eye. It’s the first such operation in the U.S., they said.

With 20/70 vision now, Sharron “Kay” Thornton, of Smithdale, Miss., can recognize faces and read a newspaper with a magnifying glass, and should get better vision once she is healed and fitted with glasses, doctors say.

This is one of those things that is amazingly cool yet still somehow creepy as all hell at the same time.

(thanks to Crusader for the link)

categories Life | | datetime September 17, 2009 9:13 am

3 Responses to “I Looked In Her Eye And I Saw Her…Teeth?”

  1. Blind Woman Regains Sight After Doctors Implant Her Tooth In Her Eye (VIDEO) | Gadget Look says:
    September 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm

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  2. Gary from Jersey says:
    September 17, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    I have to wonder which body part would have been used if she couldn’t smell.

  3. nightfly says:
    September 17, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    This sounds almost Biblical – a tooth for an eye, and an eye for a tooth.

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