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September 18, 2009

They can do that?

Blind Woman Sees With 'Tooth-in-Eye' Surgery
Doctors in Florida Restore Sharron Kay Thornton's Vision by Implanting a Tooth in Her Eye

Forget about an eye for an eye -- doctors in Florida have taken a blind woman's tooth, and used it to help restore her vision.

A team of specialists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they are the first surgeons in the United States to restore a person's sight by using a tooth. The procedure is formally called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP).

Posted by joke du jour at September 18, 2009 06:01 PM

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