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.

I see what you did there?

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:

Why a tooth to hold the lense?

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!

Wasn't he the bad guy in Last Action Hero?

Holy crap, that is some seriously cool surgery.

British dental care FTW WTF?

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

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.

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.

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.

Strange, subby??? WTF???

This is incredibly or or whatever.

Major props to Dr Liu

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 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.

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

DAD??!!

alienchickenpie: Gory medical pictures, not safe for lunch (new window)

Here's the important pic from that page:



alienchickenpie: Most awesome thing I've seen today.

QFT.

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.

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.

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.

Cool story. Bet he is so happy.

/smiley story.

That is amazing

\\\Tooth be told!

/not impressed

//oh, and image is hot like 600C molten aluminium

Don't forget to brush your eye and floss your lids...

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.

"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?

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

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.

Must have been an eye-tooth, huh?

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.

I call bullshiat. Only Jeebus can make the blind to see, right? Right?

*head asplodes*

That's, like... hacking real life.

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.

Aww damn. I was hoping he'd look like the Corinthian.

colonel_bob: That's, like... hacking real life.

Like....Lifehacker?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is the coolest thing I've seen all week...maybe even all month. Amazing!

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.

/has something in his eye

Strange how this thread is absent of Americans whining about how health-care innovation will go down the tubes if they socialize medicine...

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.

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...