Apparently this surgery has been done since the 60’s!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesisHow the fuck did they figure that one out? Whoever had the idea was as odd a duck as the first person to make cheese.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039625722000054
this sorta goes into the ideas behind corneal implants in general, and why people would think using parts of your own body is a good idea, but i want to know what he was doing when he first thought “why not teeth?”
I’m imagining a Human Centipede type mad doctor who did it to create an unholy affront to medical ethics and then lucked out.
He’s pacing in his lab all “no one understands my genius” and wildly cackling and then everyone’s like “damn doc this works to restore sight even when somone had super damaged corneas and it’s way less likely to get rejected! you’re a genius!” so then he has to go on to like be a major figure in his field instead of figuring out how to make fingers with teeth or whatever else he had planned.
At least cheese came about by accident, the originator did this on purpose! Madness.
Grow your tooth into an eye while it’s implanted in your cheek. Totally normal
Thanks, I hate it
Does that make it his eye tooth?
Medical science is insane sometimes
Gnarly
Imagine needing that surgery, that really bites
I thought he had transparent teeth from the headline.
the corinthian from sandman.
Did the Dr get a dentist to remove the tooth? Or can Dr’s do dentist stuff and we’ve been tricked?
Imagine going to a dentists and asking him to remove a healthy tooth so you can stick it in your eye…
