Blind Man can see again - Thanks to his Teeth

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Sky News said:
7:17pm UK, Saturday July 04, 2009
A blinded man has seen his wife for the first time after surgeons gave him back his sight using one of his teeth.

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Martin Jones can see for the first time in 12 years. Pic: Ross Parry Syndication

Martin Jones' canine was pulled out so a tiny optical lens could be fitted to it.
Then, amazingly, the tooth was inserted in his eye socket.

The 42-year-old lost his left eye and was totally blinded in the right 12 years ago when a tub of molten aluminium exploded in his face at the scrapyard where he worked.
He had all but given up hope of ever seeing again until hearing about operations performed by surgeon Christopher Lui and his team in Brighton, East Sussex.

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Martin Jones

Mr Jones had his tooth was implanted in his cheek for three months to grow blood vessels and new tissue.

Once it was moved into his eye it was around two weeks until he could see.
He said when the bandages came off the first person he wanted to see was his 50-year-old wife Gill.

The pair had married four years ago and settled down in Rotherham, South Yorkshire - but Jones had never seen his bride.

"The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water," he explained to the Sun newspaper.

"Then I saw this figure and it was her, it was unbelievable." He added: "When I tell friends I see through my tooth they don't believe me."
"But then I take off my glasses - and my eye looks like something from a sci-fi movie."

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One badass motherfucker.
 

TheBladeRoden

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*does not even attempt to understand how that works*

He could be the next KOTOR villain!
 

Psy

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That has to be the most convulted way of returning someones vision. Amazing.
 

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That's just scary. I wonder what it's like to blink over normal skin rather than over an eyeball. Must feel strange :s But i guess it beats being blind. I wonder how he focuses..
 

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It's probably perma-focused for near sight, and glasses would work like normal. The blinking is an interesting question though... I wonder if he even does blink? If your eye is damaged and not working I could see the body ceasing the function.
 
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I seem to remember an article a few years back that detailed this process.. at the time I was too young to understand it and was like "wtf"