Unusual Medical News
Sharron “Kay” Thornton, who received a rare surgery to restore her sight, talks about seeing again with Dr. Victor L. Perez.McClatchy
“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 United States, they said.” http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/17/tooth-implant-restores-sight/
Do you think it was one of her eye-teeth?
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