<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae95403b-fcd9-4c96-9b84-252db6ed5078/82604DD2-118D-409A-93BA-EC651AD2CE0F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm" href="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailytech.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm"><DIV class="ArticleInfo" id="ctl00_MainContent_ArticleInfo"> <SPAN class="ArticleCategory" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblCategory">Science</SPAN> <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual+ToothImplant+Restores+Blind+Patients+Sight/article16287.htm" class="ArticleHeadline" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblHeadline">Unusual Tooth-Implant Restores Blind Patient's Sight</A> <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/ContactStaff.aspx?id=97" class="DateStory" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblAuthorByline">Jason Mick</A> <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/blogs/~jasonmick" class="DateStory" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblAuthorBlog">(Blog)</A> - <SPAN class="DateStory" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblDate">September 21, 2009 8:36 AM</SPAN> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm"><DIV> <SPAN class="ArticleSummary" id="ctl00_MainContent_lblSummary">A bizarre new medical technique may help some victims of impaired vision</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm">While synthetic eyeballs -- either of <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/Stretchable+Electronics+Yield+First+Electronic+Eyeball/article12606.htm">electronic</A> or <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/Scientists+Grow+New+Frog+Eyes+From+Stem+Cells/article13501.htm">organic nature</A> -- advance towards one day replacing vision, scientists are also developing new near-term procedures to save or <A href="http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Restore+Vision+to+Legally+Blind+With+Stem+Cells/article15327.htm">restore</A> patients' vision.  Among these is the osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis, or MOOKP, a bizarre technique that uses a tooth to implant a synthetic lens in patients with cornea damage.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailytech.com/Unusual%20ToothImplant%20Restores%20Blind%20Patients%20Sight/article16287.htm"><DIV>Typically prosthetic lenses can be implanted into patients without the need for such extreme measures.  However, in some patients the extreme damage makes it impossible for a clean implantation.  That's where the MOOKP comes in.  The procedure involves removing one of the patient's teeth and using it to anchor the lens.  The procedure had been successfully performed in Europe and Asia, but never before in the U.S. -- <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-16-eye-tooth_N.htm">until now</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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