Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth implanted into his eye

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197256/Blind-man-sees-wife-time-having-TOOTH-implanted-eye.html

by dlnovell • 17 years ago

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GiraffeNecktie• 17 years ago

I think they talked about this in the Bible: something about an eye for a tooth and a tooth for an eye.

asdlfj2sd333• 17 years ago

15 points? This is currently the top comment on a medical breakthrough restoring sight? This is why I left Slashdot.

Herring• 17 years ago

yeah like the other comments are better. One guy wants to see the wife, the other thinks this makes programming look trivial, etc

Surgeons don't post here & we wouldn't understand them anyway. Gimme a funny comment any day.

wglb• 17 years ago

Or, he gave his eyetooth to see again.

jrockway8• 17 years ago

By that time he had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard.

This is why you should always wear safety goggles.

burke• 17 years ago

While true, suggesting safety goggles as a guard against exploding white-hot aluminum just makes me think of that goggles meme. What was it again?...

jrockway8• 17 years ago

I assume there is something higher-grade than chemistry-lab splash goggles for this. There must be some protective equipment available for people working with white-hot aluminum.

Nobody should have to do a job that can lead to blindness.

umjames2• 17 years ago

"The goggles, they do nothing!" Thanks Simpsons.

jmatt• 17 years ago

Smart idea using the tooth to prevent rejection.

So now I'm curious. I want to see his wife...

josefresco2• 17 years ago

shhh don't tell asdlfj2sd33 about this comment (it'll set him over the edge)

proee• 17 years ago

This is why surgeons get paid the big bucks. Makes the average programming job look pretty trivial...

asdlfj2sd333• 17 years ago

Unless you're both a surgeon and a programmer you probably shouldn't make sweeping statements like that.

I'm just a programming but I think a large portion of the bucks surgeons make is due to the expense and duration of medical school.

josefresco2• 17 years ago

And the fact that they work directly to save/improve/alter life whereas great software projects tend to be somewhat disconnected from the actual life saving thereby making their authors somewhat removed from that 'thing' that allows doctors to charge the big bucks.

10ren• 17 years ago

You implant the skin in the eye and after two months "it acquires a blood supply". Surgeons and doctors do great work, and especially in this article, but they deal in stuff that heals itself. From an technologist's point of view, I say it's indistinguishable from magic.

No such force assists the programmer.

keltecp11• 17 years ago

I'm still confused why they would use a 'tooth' oppose to something else...

jrockway8• 17 years ago

Yes, I would like to read something more informative than the Daily Mail summary.

pbhjpbhj2• 17 years ago

I'm guessing teeth can join well to flesh without rejection (mine seem good on this anyway) and also don't reject implanting foreign matter (filings, those little diamonds chavs^W people have, etc.) they're basically a bridging medium; an interstitial that avoids rejection.

gojomo• 17 years ago

I hear that among some goths, a snapshot through a human-tooth-mounted lens is the most desired MySpace Angle of all.

stuffthatmatter2• 17 years ago

...and then he said 'ahhhh! I'm blind!'

stuffthatmatter2• 17 years ago

I got modded down? Jeez you guys have no humor. Slashdot's way better

theblackbox• 17 years ago

While from this thread alone this may look like slashdot, the community happens to put a much higher emphasis on _conversation_ rather than praising an individuals wit.

At the risk of being down modded myself for not contributing to the thread I just thought it might be worth pointing that out and reminding those that seem to have voted on this particular thread as though the emphasis was on humour.

I'm not exactly one to throw the first stone, as my karma/comments/submissions are far from exemplary, but I do try to stay in keeping with the ideals of the community.

beefman• 17 years ago

I wish there were more Weekly World News links on HN.

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a tooth implanted into his eye

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