Man’s Tooth Implanted Into His Eye
07/03/09 - Odd Articles
“When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago. But a remarkable operation – which implants part of his tooth in his eye – has now pierced his world of darkness. The procedure, performed fewer than 50 times before in Britain, uses the segment of tooth as a holder for a new lens grafted from his skin. ‘The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water and then I saw this figure and it was her,’ he said today. ‘She’s wonderful and lovely. It was unbelievable to see her for the first time.” w/ photos
