Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis - surgery that uses a patient's own tooth grafted into their eye
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis - surgery that uses a patient's own tooth grafted into their eye
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"I will graft your tooth into your eye" would've been a good contender in the unsettling threats thread
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gasp A CALL BACK!
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Surg tech with about 8 years experience - never heard of this one. Some of the shit we do...
Anyway, image search at your own risk. Here's the least nightmare-fuel image I could find:
...so we basically use tooth tissue to replace the iris? Seems like something we could just use a specialized contact lens for, without needing to graft an actual biologic... then again, maybe that's why I've never heard of it :P
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Sounds very much like a hold my beer solution.
Drunk: bet you couldn’t fix blindness with mah tooth!
Drunk eye surgeon: hold my beer
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Brother, what