Blindman has eyesight restored by having tooth inserted into eye

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Taken from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080227/od_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat

DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
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Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.
"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.
After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu 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.
The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
McNichol's right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.
The first operation lasted ten hours and the second five hours.
"It is pretty heavy going," McNichol said. "There was a 65 percent chance of me getting any sight.
"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," McNichol said.

 

[stdmufin27]

Hard to friggin believe that mess. But hey, weirder things have happened. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in/around a freak melting aluminum accident though.

 

[Streetwolf]

Obligatory 'now that's what I call an *eye* tooth' reply.

 

[tamkhan]

wtf! 😱

 

[reapply2007]

Personally, along the unusal medicine thread I've always liked how chiropractic medicine started.

http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/NEWShistoryofchiropractic.htm

In Davenport Iowa in 1895 a “magnetic healer” as he was called, by the name of DD Palmer operated an office on the corner of Second and Brady street in downtown Davenport. Dr. Palmer, as he was known, noticed on that day the janitor who worked in his building was nearly totally deaf.

This janitor was a black gentleman by the name of Harvey Lillard. Upon questioning, Harvey explained to Dr. Palmer that he had lost most of his hearing 17 years earlier when he was bending over and felt a “pop” in his upper back or neck. Dr. Palmer examined the area and noticed a bump which he determined to be a spinal vertebrae out of position. It seemed that Harvey noticed this bump right after he lost his hearing. Having a knowledge of anatomy, Dr. Palmer convinced Harvey to allow him to try to fix it by pushing the bone back into place.

History is uncertain as to whether it was one visit or several, but the result was Harvey got his hearing back! Within two years Dr. Palmer opened the first school of Chiropractic on Brady Street in Davenport.

 

[PERFECT3435]

sounds crazy. i read up on it and still cant believe this.