Using a patients tooth Dr Greg Maloney for the first time in Canada restored the sight of a man using a tooth to eye transplant. This has now been the 3rd time such a thing has been successful.

The two part surgery developed in the 1960s is a last resort for those with corneal blindness. It involves removing a patients tooth, inserting a plastic lens into it and then stitching the whole thing into the patients eye socket.

>>513898068 (OP)
fuck ya cuntspower

>>513898068 (OP)
Man made horrors beyond comprehension

Maloney baloney

>>513898195
Really? You can't comprehend a simple surgery? Are you literally retarded?

>tooth is used to hold the lens inplace since the body won't reject the tooth as foreign matter
Huh. Figure there'd be a better solution to this.

>>513898195
>when the low IQ parrot thinks he's being deep
Parrot more lines you don't understand for us, kid.

>>513898114
>>513898195
>>513898262
Its actually genius. The tooth remains alive and is given a blood supply.

>>513898068 (OP)
literally why use a tooth?

>>513898833
Because it wont be rejected as it is still alive.

>>513898833
he can munch pussy with his eye now

So...dna tests...synthetic meat...laboratories...but...tootheye is the play...right right

>>513899967
Synthetic meat gets rejected.

>>513898427
technically the only thing holding us back from being fully augmented cyberpunk2077 cyborgs is our own human bodies.

>>513898068 (OP)
Why can no one answer WHY DID THEY USE A FUCKING TOOTH? We have glass materials that can be used now for a variety of surgical implants, you can even colour them to make them look more appropriate for where they're used. So why are we drilling holes through people's teeth and shoving them in their empty eye sockets?

fuck that shit I'd rather lose the eye and wear an eyepatch.
It's not like people won't be looking at you funny with your body horror meat camera

>>513900988
the same reason people who get organ transplants have to live on immune suppressants for the rest of their life. the human body doesn't like things that are not itself inside of it.

>>513898068 (OP)
AHHHHHHHHH FUCKING FRANKENSTEIN NIGHTMARE SHIT AHHHHHH NO!

>>513900074
Nigger moron I'm certain lab grown synthetic DNA tethered tissue would fare better than Frankenstein tootheye you fucking faggot.

>>513901259
>the human body doesn't like things that are not itself inside of it
Sweet sweet Summer child.

>>513898068 (OP)
Safe and effective

Have you thanked Dr. Fauci today?

>>513901399
Yes but you cannot afford it and never will be able to.

>>513898068 (OP)
Are you telling the tooth?

>>513898068 (OP)
Kek he's got a Pinkjak eye

Yawn. Wake me up when all of my teeth still in my mouth can be replaced with working eyeballs.

>>513901217
>muh other people
Suck a black dick smooth brain hivemind faggot, imagine wondering around blind cause you give a shit what a bunch of cunts say and don't want to look like a mutha fuckin vampire, fuck off

>>513898068 (OP)
Are you nigger cunts trying to outshitpost pissraeli kikes or something?

>>513901259
Except for things like inert glass...

Is there a special eye/tooth brush?

>>513901670
How would you know and what a cunt nigger reply anyway.

>>513898068 (OP)
> Permanently degrading the patient's ability to obtain nutrition by removing a tooth from their mouth
"But don't worry, you can get a replacement implant tooth for a price!"
> Possibly cause an infection from an improperly cleaned tooth
"But don't worry the antibiotics are very cheap."
> Making the patient look like a freak for the rest of their life
"But you can just wear some well designed shades or glasses for the rest of your life. Replacements are cheap, too!"
Jew medicine and oath breaking scum as well?
DO.
NO.
HARM.

>>513900988
>We have glass materials that can be used now for a variety of surgical implants, you can even colour them to make them look more appropriate for where they're used.

Could even use gold and have a golden eye... Or literally anything artful to turn a potential disfigurement into a graceful restoration that expresses their personality, and demonstrates the doctor's own skill at defying the difficulty of the situation at hand, and getting a genuinely positive result for their patient.

> "No beauty, you have to be ugly!"
The modern medical mindset is just a poisonous anti-human machine, seeking rent from permanently damaged people.

>>513902005
I'd rather be half blind than an ugly disgusting freak

Just wait until you hear about the surgery that creates functional, crab-like claws from the bones of the lower arm for people who have lost their hand.

>>513902523
>The modern medical mindset is just a poisonous anti-human machine, seeking rent from permanently damaged people.
You mean parasites?

The future is going to look back on our modern medicine the same way we looked back on lobotomies and draining humors.

>>513902523
>Could even use gold and have a golden eye
It isn't an eye. Its just the lens. This is a lens replacement not a complete eye replacement.

>>513898529
Average Canadian dating experience

>>513898068 (OP)
It seems weird that we can't somehow extract dna and engineer tissue that won't be rejected, but I know nothing about it. Tooth-eye sounds uncomfortable. But can't they at least give him a prosthetic, cosmetic contact lens? Then no one else would even know he's Ol' Tooth-Eye.

>>513902446
>t. blind nigger with no teeth

>>513903092
We certainly can but again it isnt economical. I think it would be cheaper to just buy an entire eye and transplant the lens even if it does reject once or twice, growing the tissue from your own DNA is extremely expensive human lives cost less.

>>513898068 (OP)
>Look mom, I put an M&M in the playdough
Satanic bullshit

>>513898068 (OP)
https://youtu.be/CDpo1ptkgxU
I still don't fully understand why it needs to be a tooth though.

>>513904414
I have no idea but I immediately assumed its using the nerve in the tooth and connecting it to a optical nerve in the eye socket.

>>513904414
You don't "understand" why the doctors put a tooth there, because you fundamentally KNOW that it doesn't need to be a tooth. What you don't understand is the thought process that happens inside the doctor's head.

Here, i'll help:
THE DOCTOR IS FUCKING INSANE AND SHOULD NOT BE A DOCTOR.

>>513902780
I understood that. What i meant was the substrate that the lens is attached to could be made of gold, or something else the patient would choose.
Part of healing a patient isn't just restoring the body to functional order, it's recovering the patient's sanity. The loss of sight is a 10/10 major fear that everyone has but only understand when it happens to them. Being able to transmute a possible tragedy of blindness into a form of beauty that restores confidence of the patient in not only themselves but humanity as a whole, is a more competent form of healing.

But no, we're out here getting doctors who perform a fucking WH40k body modification you might see on a chaos demon.
"What was its eyes made out of?"
> "Teeth."

Fucking unnatural in the worst possible way.

>>513898068 (OP)
Wtf

>>513901217
I'd take the meat camera but wear "blind person" glasses to hide it/set people's expectations.