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(Daily Mail) Strange Blind man sees wife for first time after having tooth implanted in his eye. Unfortunately, he also saw himself in the mirror. British dental care FTW   (dailymail.co.uk) divider line 58
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canadianloon 2009-07-03 08:19:18 AM  
I am guessing we will have a followup story about a man with a tooth in his eye divorcing his wife and marrying some 20 year old hottie in about a month or so.

 
Mad Canadian 2009-07-03 08:19:25 AM  
I see what you did there?

 
jonr 2009-07-03 08:22:39 AM  
canadianloon: I am guessing we will have a followup story about a man with a tooth in his eye divorcing his wife and marrying some 20 year old hottie in about a month or so.

Magic ball say: Don't count on it:
i.dailymail.co.uk

 
The_Time_Master 2009-07-03 08:23:55 AM  
Why a tooth to hold the lense?

 
Boberto 2009-07-03 08:25:20 AM  
Once he finally saw what he had married he quietly asked the doctor to feign complications.

If they let themselves go when you've got both eyes, just imagine if you were blind!

 
PumpUpDaFark 2009-07-03 08:25:35 AM  
Wasn't he the bad guy in Last Action Hero?

 
jondiced 2009-07-03 08:26:36 AM  
Holy crap, that is some seriously cool surgery.

 
NannerPuss 2009-07-03 08:29:16 AM  
British dental care FTW WTF?

FTFY
But seriously....that's one farked up picture that I kinda wish I'd had a warning about.

 
alienchickenpie 2009-07-03 08:30:53 AM  
The_Time_Master: Why a tooth to hold the lense?

TFA said they didn't use plastic because they thought the body would reject it. I guess they needed something rigid that would be able to integrate with the living tissue around it.

 
MadAzza [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 08:31:08 AM  
Boberto: Once he finally saw what he had married he quietly asked the doctor to feign complications.

If they let themselves go when you've got both eyes, just imagine if you were blind!


Yeah, because he's such a hot piece himself.

The woman's probably blind, too.

 
alienchickenpie 2009-07-03 08:33:47 AM  
Here are some pictures off one of Wikipedia's links:
Gory medical pictures, not safe for lunch (new window)
Most awesome thing I've seen today.

 
DirtyOldGeek 2009-07-03 08:35:42 AM  
Strange, subby??? WTF???

This is incredibly img1.fark.net or img1.fark.net or whatever.

Major props to Dr Liu i.dailymail.co.uk

 
dennysgod 2009-07-03 08:43:13 AM  
Holy crap how in the hell did they find someone in Britain that actually had a good canine tooth?

But seriously this is farking cool. A img1.fark.net for the Doctor and staff that performed this.

Best part of the article "Within a fortnight he had almost perfect vision in his right eye."...incredible.

 
Retort [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-03 08:43:28 AM  
i.dailymail.co.uk

I HAVE ALTERED YOUR DNA. PRAY I DO NOT ALTER IT FURTHER.

 
Fholes 2009-07-03 08:51:58 AM  
i242.photobucket.com

DAD??!!

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 09:01:55 AM  
alienchickenpie: Gory medical pictures, not safe for lunch (new window)

Here's the important pic from that page:

img36.imageshack.us

alienchickenpie: Most awesome thing I've seen today.

QFT.

 
superlawyergirl [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 09:05:33 AM  
NannerPuss: British dental care FTW WTF?

FTFY
But seriously....that's one farked up picture that I kinda wish I'd had a warning about.


Ditto. I was eating breakfast... not so much anymore.

 
M-G 2009-07-03 09:17:56 AM  
In TFA, they said his retina was damaged. I think they screwed up. If it was retinal damage, a new lens wouldn't do anything. And if the molten metal was able to damage the retina, it would have meant that eye was destroyed like his other one.

 
jfarkinB [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 09:19:38 AM  
FTFA:

Doctors saved his other eye but the retina was badly damaged and he was told he would probably never see again.

No, I don't think so. His cornea was probably gone, but that's replaceable. If his retina were damaged, a new lens wouldn't do jack.

It looks to me like his iris and lens were completely scarred over. I'm surprised they even tried to save the eye. I'm also amazed that he doesn't have more facial scarring.

Sure, it looks freaky, but whatever works. I just hope stem-cell and regeneration research keeps progressing; this kind of roundabout procedure is a great way for surgeons to show off, but I'd much rather just regrow the damaged parts.

 
Veeoh [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 09:19:54 AM  
Cool story. Bet he is so happy.

/smiley story.

 
Denial_of_Death 2009-07-03 09:23:00 AM  
i15.photobucket.com

 
98RKC 2009-07-03 09:29:29 AM  
That is amazing

\\\Tooth be told!

 
GBB 2009-07-03 09:31:04 AM  
www.infinitecoolness.com

/not impressed

 
GBB 2009-07-03 09:32:24 AM  
//oh, and image is hot like 600C molten aluminium

 
freaksflocktogether 2009-07-03 09:33:59 AM  
I'd give my eyetooth to see that woman.

 
lukelightning 2009-07-03 09:34:36 AM  
Don't forget to brush your eye and floss your lids...

 
Boberto 2009-07-03 09:35:07 AM  
MadAzza: Boberto: Once he finally saw what he had married he quietly asked the doctor to feign complications.

If they let themselves go when you've got both eyes, just imagine if you were blind!

Yeah, because he's such a hot piece himself.

The woman's probably blind, too.


Don't be so hard on the guy... a tub of molten aluminum blew up in his face, it's just rehab weight. The uglies, they were always there, I am sure.

 
hej 2009-07-03 09:35:14 AM  
"Martin Jones had one of his front teeth removed and turned into a lens holder before it was inserted in his right eye."

Is there some reason why only his tooth was suitable for this purpose? Or was it more a matter of, they were going to pull it any ways so why let it go to waste?

 
papercut 2009-07-03 09:37:38 AM  
hej: "Martin Jones had one of his front teeth removed and turned into a lens holder before it was inserted in his right eye."

Is there some reason why only his tooth was suitable for this purpose? Or was it more a matter of, they were going to pull it any ways so why let it go to waste?


your body won't reject your own tooth

 
knifefish 2009-07-03 09:37:42 AM  
jfarkinB: FTFA:

Doctors saved his other eye but the retina was badly damaged and he was told he would probably never see again.

No, I don't think so. His cornea was probably gone, but that's replaceable. If his retina were damaged, a new lens wouldn't do jack.

It looks to me like his iris and lens were completely scarred over. I'm surprised they even tried to save the eye. I'm also amazed that he doesn't have more facial scarring.

Sure, it looks freaky, but whatever works. I just hope stem-cell and regeneration research keeps progressing; this kind of roundabout procedure is a great way for surgeons to show off, but I'd much rather just regrow the damaged parts.


Yeah, you have to save everything you can. An empty eye socket is a pain to clean if you have a functioning eye (prone to infections, etc). Being blind and having nothing in either socket is a huge pain.

I wonder if he'll have to go back to work now.

/Awesome story.

 
CravenMorehead 2009-07-03 09:50:02 AM  
Must have been an eye-tooth, huh?

 
Egalitarian [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-03 10:06:08 AM  
I am laughing hysterically at what kind of bizarre farked-up sci-fi world we're living in right now. Get a tooth implanted in your eye and you can see with a demonic eye.

An older lady at work was telling me how doctors fixed her farked-up ankles by taking tendons out of her leg and wrapping them around her ankles. It's all about cannibalization of your own parts -- when cadaver parts won't do the trick.

 
TreeHugger [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 10:07:22 AM  
I call bullshiat. Only Jeebus can make the blind to see, right? Right?

*head asplodes*

 
colonel_bob 2009-07-03 10:42:27 AM  
That's, like... hacking real life.

 
cowgirl toffee [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 10:42:41 AM  
Does this doc just lay around at night and think of strange things on the body to put in peoples eyes?

Someone needs to tell him that he'll go blind doing that.

 
Fluid 2009-07-03 10:49:04 AM  
Aww damn. I was hoping he'd look like the Corinthian.

 
MostNutsEver 2009-07-03 11:06:34 AM  
colonel_bob: That's, like... hacking real life.

Like....Lifehacker?

 
cherryl taggart 2009-07-03 11:23:22 AM  
The reason the canine tooth is used is because it has the biggest single canal. The molars and bicuspids have the bigger pulp chambers, but multiple canals, so too much hassle. The other incisors have single canals also, but much narrower and smaller chamber. Again, too much hassle. I wonder what made someone decide to try this anyway. Someone much smarter and more innovative than me, that's for certain.

It is interesting that the ideal tooth is also known as the eye-tooth. Wonder if the upper ones are better to use or the lower, or if there is no difference.

 
Fano 2009-07-03 11:30:11 AM  
cowgirl toffee: Does this doc just lay around at night and think of strange things on the body to put in peoples eyes?

Someone needs to tell him that he'll go blind doing that.


Paging Dr. Vecna, paging Dr. Vecna

 
cowgirl toffee [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 11:36:10 AM  
Fano: cowgirl toffee: Does this doc just lay around at night and think of strange things on the body to put in peoples eyes?

Someone needs to tell him that he'll go blind doing that.

Paging Dr. Vecna, paging Dr. Vecna


Hey is that a D&D reference to the Eye of Vecna?

I can't believe I just remembered that.
I'm going to cry for a while.

 
Flakeloaf 2009-07-03 12:08:25 PM  
Mr. Liu

Uh, Mister? The guy's a friggin surgeon. He most certainly did not spend a decade of his life studying medicine to become mister.

You stay classy, Daily Mail.

 
dabbletech [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 12:23:50 PM  
Can it be mere coincidence that most Brits have the same number of eyes and teeth? I think not.

/I can see you have good taste, mate.

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-03 12:38:16 PM  
My uncle lost his eyes in a car crash when he was 20. He met his wife 5 years later, so has never seen her face.

When I was a child, I wondered aloud if he could ever get his eyes fixed. My dad said "Better he never know what a hag he married."

Her daughters-in-law call her Snagglepuss.

 
fonik 2009-07-03 01:40:13 PM  
alienchickenpie: Here are some pictures off one of Wikipedia's links:
Gory medical pictures, not safe for lunch (new window)
Most awesome thing I've seen today.


Holy fark, that's awesome. Medicine is looking more and more like an engineering discipline instead of a therapeutic one. I'm looking forward to Frankenstein-like replacement body parts in my old age.

// I'll be putting on the ritz.

 
kunibob 2009-07-03 01:41:30 PM  
This is the coolest thing I've seen all week...maybe even all month. Amazing!

 
ciocia [TotalFark] 2009-07-03 01:52:29 PM  
Egalitarian: I am laughing hysterically at what kind of bizarre farked-up sci-fi world we're living in right now. Get a tooth implanted in your eye and you can see with a demonic eye.

An older lady at work was telling me how doctors fixed her farked-up ankles by taking tendons out of her leg and wrapping them around her ankles. It's all about cannibalization of your own parts -- when cadaver parts won't do the trick.


Well, parts is parts. I remember reading a book--from the 60s, in which a woman whose face was horribly deformed from an auto accident had to have her lips remade, with material from her vag. Seems that is was the part that, anatomically speaking, most resembled her (face) lips.

 
Brainmeat 2009-07-03 02:21:17 PM  
/has something in his eye

 
SirMadness 2009-07-03 02:33:47 PM  
Strange how this thread is absent of Americans whining about how health-care innovation will go down the tubes if they socialize medicine...

 
Brainmeat 2009-07-03 02:40:20 PM  
SirMadness: Strange how this thread is absent of Americans whining about how health-care innovation will go down the tubes if they socialize medicine...

It is almost as if the stereotype you believe in is less than accurate.

 
one of Ripley's Bad Guys 2009-07-03 03:32:21 PM  
Flakeloaf

Mr. Liu

Uh, Mister? The guy's a friggin surgeon. He most certainly did not spend a decade of his life studying medicine to become mister.

You stay classy, Daily Mail.


I think that's the way they do it over there...

 
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