07-10-2013, 11:16 AM
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How Amazing!
Ian Tibbetts has been almost completely blind for 14 years, when a piece of scrap metal from an oven struck him in the face and ripped his cornea in six places.But his sight has remarkably restored thanks to pioneering procedure which reconstructed part of his right eye using one of Mr Tibbetts' own teeth.
A tiny plastic lens is inserted into a hole drilled through the tooth, which is later implanted in the eye - allowing Mr Tibbetts to see the faces of his four-year-old twins Callum and Ryan for the first time.
Before the breakthrough operation, the 43-year-old former forklift truck driver had only ever seen his two sons as blurry shapes.
But after the operation - which he underwent in December last year - the delighted dad-of-two can now see his children for the first time.
And as long as the retina is still functioning, the lens implanted into the eye provides a new window through which the patient is able to see.
Remarkably, because the tooth belongs to the patient, the body does not reject it.
How on earth do they think of these procedures? Very clever anyway and some people could have their sight restored!
Well done to whoever thought of it
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blind-surge...1.html#4W6hsk3
07-10-2013, 03:35 PM
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Re: How Amazing!
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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The wonders of modern science, eh !
07-10-2013, 03:38 PM
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Re: How Amazing!
Originally Posted by Pats CG
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Such a great story !Filled me with horror for a while, Hubs had a piece of metal shoot into his eye, when he was welding at work. The hospital managed to get it out using a magnet !
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