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Ian Tibbetts was 27 when a piece of scrap metal hit him in the face, eventually leading to loss of vision in his left eye, and the loss of his right eye altogether.
In December of 2012, Tibbetts (now 43) underwent groundbreaking surgery called “Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis” which constructs a new eye using a plastic lens and one of Tibbetts’s own teeth. They drill a tiny hole into the tooth, insert the lens into the hole, and then insert the whole tooth into the eye socket. If the retina is still functioning, the patient can see through the tooth-lens window– and the body will never reject it, since the tooth belonged to the patient in the first place.
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