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Blind Patient Sees Again with Eye Tooth
FRED TASKER, Miami Herald: The multistage procedure began in March when Dr. Yoh Sawatari, a dental surgeon at the University of Miami Medical School, extracted the tooth — coincidentally, it was Thornton’s eyetooth, also called the canine tooth — shaved it flat horizontally, drilled a hole in it and inserted an acrylic lens. He implanted the tooth/lens prosthesis under the skin inside her cheek, intending to leave it there for three months so the combination could heal together. Unfortunately, she developed a sinus infection, so he had to remove it and re-implant it under a pouch of skin in her upper chest.
