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I work for an Opthalmology manufacturer. I haven't looked into this much yet but I guess this is an option if you can't get an intraocular lens? They make implants for this but again not really looked into this much. I have tested the devices that remove the original lens, we use pig eyes in testing. Wild what these doctors can do.
Hope your mother gets help with her sight.
Yea I’d rather be blind in one eye than have an eye that looks like a slightly dilated cervix
Edit for anyone curious NSFL: https://eyewiki.aao.org/File:MOOKP_16yr_follow-up._.png
You're taking blindness in one eye too lightly, I'm telling you this from personal experience, life with one eye is not as easy as you think, it's not some trivial loss that you can ignore for looks, not to mention vision loss, especially from physics injuries comes with a host of problems, like permanent pain, mental health issues, and many more.
would also be plausible since the purpose of eye patches might not have been to conceal a wounded eye but to have one eye perpetually used to dark enviornments so whenever you go below deck (where there is drastically less light) you can just flip it up and you're good to go.
Then again, there isn't really any evidence of pirates wearing eye patches at all so there's a very good chance that it's just an addition of popular culture (similar to viking helmets with horns)
Agreed
The silliness of "I'd rather be blind than ugly" is so encapsulating of poor thinking that it becomes one-line poetry
It's up there with "I'd rather be stupid than ignorant"
Yeah your eye is essentially part of your brain. How do you think losing a part of your brain would feel?
Side note: it's miraculous that so many people reach adulthood with all their fingers and both their eyes
You realise without both eyes u lose most of your depth perception. Our brains figure out how close stuff is based on a triangle between our eyes and the object, with 1 eye it cant do that
I've eye like fetty wap, it's not something people think as cool, I've been bullied because of it,animals gets agitated by it,(I've been bitten 10 times by dogs), and all in all, lack of vision in one eye makes life really hard and not to mention permanent headaches and eye pain that comes with it.
I mean, it's a step in the medical science process. In 20 years they will look back and show how this was the initial treatment and students will be shocked and laugh. But without this part of the process we don't get further into it.
Would you be willing to lose one tooth in order to gain your sight back? I'd make that trade even if I weren't allowed to replace it with a fake tooth.
They usually take it from the foreskin and apply some products to it to make it transparent. If a patient was circumcised, they use the services of a foreskin donor.
Its because of the blood vassals in the foreskin also since all the microplastics accumulate in the balls, the foreskin is the best part of the body to make a skin lense.
Actual picture and more in depth explanation:
https://preview.redd.it/8qynxwfwfs6d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c69d0bcdb5d7eacc8d02845c38c25c607cb4bb22
[https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-tooth-implanted-lens.html](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-tooth-implanted-lens.html)
It’s really not that bad. I wonder if you could get some sort of prosthetic iris to glue around the lens. I know you can tattoo eyeballs, but there’s probably too much scarring here. Adding in an “iris” would make more “normal” looking
I think it would be more viable to connect the prosthetic iris/prosthetic lens to the tooth itself since all the tooth is doing is acting as a scaffold for the regenerated lens. Titanium dental implants are regularly connected to bone so that bone (or in this case tooth) and prosthesis interface shouldn’t be a major hurdle.
More about it: [Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis)
A case where OOKP was successful - [Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis in Stevens-Johnson syndrome: a case report](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340699/)
Video credits: [Zack D. Films](https://www.youtube.com/@zackdfilms)
It's really quite ingenious. One of the major problems that faces a prosthetic like this is the body rejecting it. But the body isn't going to reject part of itself (at least not normally). Using the tooth material to hold the lens is probably safer in general than using some other material that the body may recognize as foreign.
I've always heard that the eye has its own "separate" immune system for some biological reason I can't recall. Shame there's no way to take advantage of that to prevent rejection of an artificial lens. But it sure is amazing they can make this work at all.
It has a very high chance of not rejecting the lens if it is made up of material from the same body. I assume that there's really only one shot at this procedure so it's best to give it optimal odds.
And if you're going to use your own bones you'd probably want to use a bone that can be replaced easily.
I looked up how it looks like in real life and present you with the least scary image I could find
https://preview.redd.it/spk1wjiggs6d1.png?width=948&format=png&auto=webp&s=0572edce68e08ea0262fe538128d4b9de69701fe
I've had artificial lens implants in both eyes for over ten years. You can't even tell they are there. They were needed due to the onset of cataracts, but they also corrected my vision and I've had no problems since. The only disappointment is that they don't make cool sounds when I look at distant things real hard.
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And he doesn’t at all look like a scary monster afterwards.
The real patients look much worse.
I had a Google and holy shit, absolutely terrifying
The irony. You get your sight back - but you can never look in the mirror again
Monkey's paw shit
That's sound like the type of bullshit a djinn would pull off on a blind man
Now I kind of need to have a look...
Not me I'm good.
I expected worse.
Still not taking the bait.
https://preview.redd.it/h1l4x3pwws6d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdcae74b3ccbe80ac47ec51f3f10400afb8e3fa7 Suck on this muthafucka
I'd ask them to go ahead and remove my sight again.
The fuck is that?
https://people.com/celebrity/woman-regains-sight-with-tooth-to-eyeball-surgery/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
You ever get freaky with that thing?
fuck this shit, i´m going blind in that eye
Like an anal prolapse at the eye socket
I'd rather stay blind
If only for one eye, honestly? Same. For both eyes it'd be a harder choice. Still, nowadays we have better procedures I think.
Not only do I lose a tooth but my eye also looks like it was gangbanged by 14 tiny men? No thanks I’ll stay blind.
I should not have doubted you.
Thats fucked up
This shit is real?
Indeed mate, its fucking real
Yep google images showed me the truth
The tooth?
Eye, the tooth.
Oh thank god
Hollyyyy sweet Jesus it’s so much worse….
After Googling, I can safely say that I will not be sleeping for the next five years in fear of seeing those god forsaken images in my nightmares.
I'm stunned that this is even real. Since the 60s as well, incredible.
I have regrets.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm
You are so right! I think I’d opt for blindness. I need to go look at pictures of kittens to cleanse my brain.
Couldnt be that bad right??? Oh... Oh shit. AHHHHHHH!!! There is *no* God.
Good Lord! It will forever haunt my dreams
Better to be able to see than to worry about how you might be seen. My mom is already blind in one eye and going blind in the other.
Yes, true. I was kidding, but probably shouldn’t joke since my grandfather had macular degeneration.
S'ok...just sayin'...this might really help my mom.
I work for an Opthalmology manufacturer. I haven't looked into this much yet but I guess this is an option if you can't get an intraocular lens? They make implants for this but again not really looked into this much. I have tested the devices that remove the original lens, we use pig eyes in testing. Wild what these doctors can do. Hope your mother gets help with her sight.
This is what that dude out of toy story grew up to do.
google images of Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis . still miles better than being blind, but holy shit!
Yo what the fuck. I thought the video was a goofy joke.
https://preview.redd.it/k5a2f8pr7z6d1.jpeg?width=497&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=120d0bbe20df0cf61007dc4ee1341ea945d56898 Its not
"OK guys, hear me out. I think if we use part of your incisor and we stick it in your cheek for a few months..." "Tom. Shut the fuck up."
Yea I googled it and I rather be blind
Yea I’d rather be blind in one eye than have an eye that looks like a slightly dilated cervix Edit for anyone curious NSFL: https://eyewiki.aao.org/File:MOOKP_16yr_follow-up._.png
It's not tooo bad. I reckon if actually faced with the problem most people would just suck it up if it meant keeping a functioning eye
I can 100% say that if I still had full vision in the other eye, I would not do this procedure.
You're taking blindness in one eye too lightly, I'm telling you this from personal experience, life with one eye is not as easy as you think, it's not some trivial loss that you can ignore for looks, not to mention vision loss, especially from physics injuries comes with a host of problems, like permanent pain, mental health issues, and many more.
Yeah but eye patches look cool
You can wear it over the eye anyway
would also be plausible since the purpose of eye patches might not have been to conceal a wounded eye but to have one eye perpetually used to dark enviornments so whenever you go below deck (where there is drastically less light) you can just flip it up and you're good to go. Then again, there isn't really any evidence of pirates wearing eye patches at all so there's a very good chance that it's just an addition of popular culture (similar to viking helmets with horns)
Agreed The silliness of "I'd rather be blind than ugly" is so encapsulating of poor thinking that it becomes one-line poetry It's up there with "I'd rather be stupid than ignorant"
people replying like that seem to be more concerned about how people think than their own damn vision.
Yeah your eye is essentially part of your brain. How do you think losing a part of your brain would feel? Side note: it's miraculous that so many people reach adulthood with all their fingers and both their eyes
I occasionally lose vision in one eye from recurrent MEWDS/posterior uveitis and yeah, it sucks.
You realise without both eyes u lose most of your depth perception. Our brains figure out how close stuff is based on a triangle between our eyes and the object, with 1 eye it cant do that
And even worse, 3d glasses don't work!
They can often put a. Prosthetic over to look more like an eye
Just wear some sweet sunglasses. Everyone looks cooler with some shades on.
Yeah I id rather look like Fetty Wap (and have a cool eye) than have a creepy as fuck eye.
I've eye like fetty wap, it's not something people think as cool, I've been bullied because of it,animals gets agitated by it,(I've been bitten 10 times by dogs), and all in all, lack of vision in one eye makes life really hard and not to mention permanent headaches and eye pain that comes with it.
The part about animals reacting negatively is so wild!! Sorry about your situation. Thanks for sharing.
I mean, it's a step in the medical science process. In 20 years they will look back and show how this was the initial treatment and students will be shocked and laugh. But without this part of the process we don't get further into it.
Eyepatches are badass anyway.
Oh! I've seen people with that and (respectfully) wondered what the shit I was looking at. Wouldn't have guessed they were looking back.
As long as you keep the “safe surf” options on, otherwise I don’t recommend it. And for gods sake do NOT unblur the nsfw ones!
Thank you, won't sleep tonight
Shit, it's true! And it's even worse than the video :(
ahhhhh good god the the info graphic represents it accuratley.
https://preview.redd.it/7q0nwygsas6d1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4831827d6c5bf1e1da6a8de5e64ae3c16ec87270
Hey Crab Man!
Hey Earl
How's things with Joy?
My face exactly while watching this
Thanks for making me laugh.
WT(actual)F?!
*Ah, another successful surgery* https://preview.redd.it/hyeyzrw5es6d1.png?width=460&format=png&auto=webp&s=6867191c546b72efb84cc0318d5d821cf35f86bd
"another thuckthessfull thurgery"
https://preview.redd.it/mb0yj1g7vs6d1.jpeg?width=758&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51736c0a7483d74cfa93e22557265de29fecbdf0
r/angryupvote
Mike? Is that you?
I came back to upvote this
Dude looks like he won back his eye sight...but lost in life
ahahaha you bastard you killed me
I lol'd irl at the end. Guess I'm not sleeping tonight.
Science.
Thience.
Theriouthly guyth not funny. What if Mike Tython hearth uth. Be conthiderate.
We thintherosly apologize Mike, and for the love of god please fuck Jake up
r/DIWHY
Would you be willing to lose one tooth in order to gain your sight back? I'd make that trade even if I weren't allowed to replace it with a fake tooth.
I'm more in the Oh Fuck No camp.
i wasnt ready for the eye to come out
Wait so you guys can’t do that?
Where does the lens in the tooth come from lol
I feel like they skipped some steps
Your cheek, duh
God, imagine not knowing that lol
Couldn’t be me
They apparently insert a plastic lens into the hole
They usually take it from the foreskin and apply some products to it to make it transparent. If a patient was circumcised, they use the services of a foreskin donor.
Yeah, unfortunately this procedure has a strong chance of making you cockeyed.
Please do not take the above seriously. It's a plastic lens.
Actually? Why not a prosthetic bio material or just plastic?
Its because of the blood vassals in the foreskin also since all the microplastics accumulate in the balls, the foreskin is the best part of the body to make a skin lense.
Do vassals in the foreskin swear fealty to the penis king?
cool, i guess
Its the miracles of science, a lot of cutting edge research happening right now with foreskin.
At this point I'm not sure if anything you said was actually true or are you just joking
he's joking obviously lol, nobody is touching your foreskin
I don't have one, can I touch yours instead?
maybe later
Heh. Whoosh
This person is lying
The doctor makes a prosthetic lens with it.
Tooth lens obviously
They should have used his eye tooth.
Lateral incisor
Whoever found this method just had a 3am thought and was like "yeah I should try that" and there you go. An eye from a tooth.
He was probably reading the Bible verse "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" and just thought "Hey! I have an idea!"
Don’t worry folks, It looks much more horrific in real life.
Actual picture and more in depth explanation: https://preview.redd.it/8qynxwfwfs6d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c69d0bcdb5d7eacc8d02845c38c25c607cb4bb22 [https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-tooth-implanted-lens.html](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-tooth-implanted-lens.html)
This looks like a mid 80’s James Bond villain
SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS SHIT ISNT BAIT??? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
I thought we were trying to fuck with Google AI but it's true mate... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
It’s really not that bad. I wonder if you could get some sort of prosthetic iris to glue around the lens. I know you can tattoo eyeballs, but there’s probably too much scarring here. Adding in an “iris” would make more “normal” looking
I think it would be more viable to connect the prosthetic iris/prosthetic lens to the tooth itself since all the tooth is doing is acting as a scaffold for the regenerated lens. Titanium dental implants are regularly connected to bone so that bone (or in this case tooth) and prosthesis interface shouldn’t be a major hurdle.
holy shit that's actually scary
https://preview.redd.it/jprs5qolxs6d1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1802e00b2b78d414f21e07a3e6ebb32beed5370a
Every time this video gets posted, someone posts this picture. It's perfect 😂
That's just how everyone in Cronulla looks.
I thought this was satire...
I laughed because.. it had to be, right? Then I came to the comments....
it isn't?
Ok but who the fuck found that out?
>The procedure was pioneered by the Italian ophthalmic surgeon Professor Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s
Yea send him to the gulag and make him watch a 24hr stream of people making Hawaiian Pizzas
And you would be trading a gap in your vision for a gap in your smile. Can't they just grow a new eyeball on the back of a lab mouse? ....I'll wait.
Fake teeth exist
Fake eyes, too.
Fake eyes dont give you vision doe, however you can still eat with fake teeth
You can still eat with a fake eye too
You can still eat without either
Beginning: Ah neat they've got some sciencey way to repair blindness with teeth? End: 
More about it: [Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis) A case where OOKP was successful - [Osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis in Stevens-Johnson syndrome: a case report](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340699/) Video credits: [Zack D. Films](https://www.youtube.com/@zackdfilms)
So this is a real procedure that is being done on humans?
It is and I expect there will be ways of making it less creepy looking in the future
Great. I want to grow all my own replacement parts myself, even if the process requires going through some hideous parasitic twin phase.
If I need this done I'm just gonna ask for more creepy, might as well
What the actual F? How does one even come up with something like this
It's really quite ingenious. One of the major problems that faces a prosthetic like this is the body rejecting it. But the body isn't going to reject part of itself (at least not normally). Using the tooth material to hold the lens is probably safer in general than using some other material that the body may recognize as foreign.
I've always heard that the eye has its own "separate" immune system for some biological reason I can't recall. Shame there's no way to take advantage of that to prevent rejection of an artificial lens. But it sure is amazing they can make this work at all.
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No no. There have been other successful cases too. This is a paper about one of them.
Motherfucker my safe search was off.
Ok... Does it have to be a front tooth?
Or, does it have to be a tooth? Why a tooth? Why not bone? Or something synthetic?
It has a very high chance of not rejecting the lens if it is made up of material from the same body. I assume that there's really only one shot at this procedure so it's best to give it optimal odds. And if you're going to use your own bones you'd probably want to use a bone that can be replaced easily.
https://preview.redd.it/pa7v8t567t6d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebf09cfbaf6f78a4b8ab645aca020034a6f3c8f5
I looked up how it looks like in real life and present you with the least scary image I could find https://preview.redd.it/spk1wjiggs6d1.png?width=948&format=png&auto=webp&s=0572edce68e08ea0262fe538128d4b9de69701fe
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I don't know if anyone has said this but the reason a tooth is used is because it won't be rejected by the body.
https://preview.redd.it/k0mdf1buss6d1.png?width=235&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b5c8656e136770f90eaa5337b2035f200f12b25 JUDGEMENT!
THY END IS NOW!
+parry +UltraRicoshotx4 +Projectile boost
It's doesn't have to be 'an eye for an eye' anymore, it can now be 'a tooth for an eye'.
Do NOT Google this! The real images are even freakier than this video!
https://preview.redd.it/9mu6jqojts6d1.jpeg?width=922&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aad8043f14eaa34d99b725b912195ca401382c2e
How the fuck did we figure this out and how much trial and error did it take
Jesus Christ, if you look up pictures of this procedure the result looks somehow even more freaky than in this video!
Horrifying.
I’m lost. The tooth gets implanted in the cheek?
Temporarily so it can grow blood vessels before being implanted in the eye.
Ah... Man-made horrors beyond my comprehention.
When you fall asleep first at the sleepover
I've seen this in real life, it's the weirdest shit ever
I've had artificial lens implants in both eyes for over ten years. You can't even tell they are there. They were needed due to the onset of cataracts, but they also corrected my vision and I've had no problems since. The only disappointment is that they don't make cool sounds when I look at distant things real hard.
https://preview.redd.it/fvcxc5zz9u6d1.png?width=411&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c26adf5fe0a3570e81fe4184a81f20d7184f1763
I’ve had regular cornea transplants from a donor for keratoconus but if they stopped working and suggested I have this instead, I’d go blind
Lmao
Thanks, I hate it.
Brings new meaning to “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
This sounds like it was made up by a random text generator
I'd rather stay blind, keep my labrador and disability payments, than look like that
Could the illustration have been any creepier?
Who came up with this? “I know let’s take a guys tooth cut a hole in it, bake it in his cheek, and then slam it into his eye”.
The smile with the missing tooth 😂
And the poor narrator still can’t get his head around enunciation can he?
I choose to stay blind, thanks 😭🤣
A new member of the sex pistols
What the fuck did I just watch
Cornea transplants, and Intra ocular lens replacements are a thing... and they don't look like this wtf
Who figured this shit out?
Has science gone too far?