Son’s Tooth saves Father’s Eyesight
The son’s tooth helps to save dad’s sight
Rob McNichol’s son — also called Rob — didn’t think twice when the chance arose to help his dad to see again by giving him a canine tooth.
Father-of-eight Mr McNichol snr (57) was blinded in a work-place accident, when liquid aluminium exploded in his face in November 2005.
But he can now see again after doctors, using groundbreaking surgery, inserted his son’s tooth in his eye.
The surgery, Osteo Odonto Kerato Prosthesis (OOKP), involved fitting a living canine tooth with an optical cylinder and transplanting it into the eye cavity
The surgery, which costs an estimated €40,000, is believed to be the first of its kind to be carried out on an Irish resident.
Pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, Osteo Odonto Kerato Prosthesis (OOKP) surgery is carried out on patients for whom conventional corneal transplants will not work. It entails replacing a damaged cornea with a live tooth root and attached optical cylinder
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That is, at the exact same time, Disgusting and AWESOME.
The bible proved wrong once again. Tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye, pah! Where’s the initiative in that?
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