totally amazing :o [clap]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197256/Blind-man-sees-wife-time-having-TOOTH-implanted-eye.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197256/Blind-man-sees-wife-time-having-TOOTH-implanted-eye.html)
"'The first car I saw when my sight was restored was a Smart car and I couldn't stop laughing - I'd never seen one before and I thought it had been chopped in half."
[laugh]
Wow what a cool story. Thanks Pakhan. [thumbsup]
Wow. That's pretty amazing.
wow that is really neat-o
Very interesting.
I would like to hear swampduc's insight to this.
Amazing. [thumbsup]
Good story.
I also saw this story on the side..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1202752/Brad-Pitt-adds-motorbike-collection--metal-seat-comfortable.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1202752/Brad-Pitt-adds-motorbike-collection--metal-seat-comfortable.html)
Brad Pitt's collection of motorbikes..including a Desmosedici and..
a Monster 696?!
REALLY?! A 696?? Maybe the 1100 but I would doubt a 696.
Sounds basically like a keratoprosthesis, which is a type of implant we've been using for a couple of decades. However, the autograft of tooth enamel reduces rejection rates as the article states. I've seen some long-term keratoprostheses be relatively successful, but I don't believe this exact procedure is being used in the States. It helps in a case where the reason the person can't see is do to corneal and iris damage. In other words, the retina and optic nerve, as well as the visual pathways in the brain, would have to be intact.
Quote from: IZ on July 28, 2009, 08:30:01 PM
Good story.
I also saw this story on the side..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1202752/Brad-Pitt-adds-motorbike-collection--metal-seat-comfortable.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1202752/Brad-Pitt-adds-motorbike-collection--metal-seat-comfortable.html)
Brad Pitt's collection of motorbikes..including a Desmosedici and..
a Monster 696?!
REALLY?! A 696?? Maybe the 1100 but I would doubt a 696.
AWESOME story about the eye.
The Pitt thing makes me laugh a bit. 100K custom bike on a $500 landscape utility trailer :D
Quote from: swampduc on July 29, 2009, 05:08:17 AM
Sounds basically like a keratoprosthesis, which is a type of implant we've been using for a couple of decades. However, the autograft of tooth enamel reduces rejection rates as the article states. I've seen some long-term keratoprostheses be relatively successful, but I don't believe this exact procedure is being used in the States. It helps in a case where the reason the person can't see is do to corneal and iris damage. In other words, the retina and optic nerve, as well as the visual pathways in the brain, would have to be intact.
I'm guessing you're a ocular docular?
Quote from: Pakhan on July 29, 2009, 09:11:58 AM
I'm guessing you're a ocular docular?
Yeah, I'm an ophthalmologist, or, as my friends from med school call me, an "eye dentist." ;D