sight restored to "40%" after corneal surgery using tooth

01/10/2013 12:24

Ian Tibbetts underwent osteo-ondoonto-keratoprosthesis surgery which involved implanting part of one of his teeth into his eye in order to create an artificial lens usin the cylinder produced by the tooth alongside an artificial plastic lens to create a miniature telescope, if you will, inside his eyeball after having removed the tissue on the inside of the sclera wall. A short clip from the BBC coverage should be playing at the bottom of this webpage.

 

For the surgical process undertaken click this hyperlink:https://cms.aninterestinsurgery.webnode.com/news/osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis/

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