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Man able to see again through his tooth (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait... what?

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For the first time, a Canadian doctor performed tooth-in-eye surgery to restore the vision of a B.C. man who’d been blind for 21 years. The intensive involves removing a patient's tooth, inserting a plastic lens into it and stitching the whole thing into the patient's eye socket.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I did read the description below the video and I am sure there is a medical reason behind it.