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	Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye

Spiritraiser

2-28-2008 10:05 AM

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wow, tooth for an eye!

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                                        Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye                </H1></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://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080228/ts_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat"><P>
                        DUBLIN (AFP) - 
An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.                        
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Bob McNichol, 57, from <SPAN id="lw_1204180892_0" class="yshortcuts">County Mayo</SPAN> in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.</P></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://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080228/ts_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat"><P>
"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.</P></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://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080228/ts_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat"><P>
After <SPAN id="lw_1204180892_1" class="yshortcuts">doctors in Ireland</SPAN> said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in <SPAN id="lw_1204180892_2" class="yshortcuts">England</SPAN>.</P></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://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080228/ts_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat"><P>
The technique, pioneered in <SPAN id="lw_1204180892_3" class="yshortcuts">Italy</SPAN> in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient's own tooth and the surrounding bone.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EC526CFD-9DA0-470B-9EC6-29AE5D0CCC9A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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