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Rare ‘tooth-in-eye’ surgery restores man’s vision after two decades | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The procedure, also known as tooth-in-eye or osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, involves removing a patient’s tooth, sewing a piece of it into the cheek and placing the structure into their eye.

and here I thought the surgery was to remove a tooth from the eye

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Sentences constructed by the utterly deranged. Who thinks up this stuff?!