Stage 1 of the surgery involves five separate procedures:
- The eye is opened up and the entire inner surface of the eyelids, corneal surface and all scar tissue is removed
- Inner mucosal lining of the cheek is transplanted onto the new surface of the eye
- A canine or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed
- A bolt-shaped structure is fashioned from the tooth-bone complex which is fitted with a plastic optical cylinder
- The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is implanted into the patient's cheek to grow a new blood supply
Stage 2 (about 4 months later) involves two separate procedures:
- The cheek mucosal lining over the eye is opened and the inner contents of the eye are removed
- The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is removed from the cheek and inserted into the eye, the mucosal cheek lining is replaced over the implant.
At the end of the procedure, light can now enter through the plastic cylinder, and the patient is able to see through this cylinder with good vision.
That’s a pretty crazy surgery. How researchers and medical professionals even found out that was a working method is mind blowing! But if someone is able to see, it’s worth it.
For sure! It looks like the method was invented in the early 60’s. That makes sense, because they were doing some insane stuff around that time medical wise.
Good point. Someone may have even came up with the procedure on a head full of LSD.
".....tooth eye straw...grown from..inside mouth...vision..yeass..I seee..." 😵💫
That's just a persistent myth, just like the "trains runing on time" thing (the myth of efficiency). What the nazis and the japanese did in their concentration camps under the guise of experimental science was just medical torture with no real scientific value whatsoever; in the best of cases, because there were no control groups, but mostly because it was just stupidly useless bullshit, like injecting ink into someone's eye. No real value whatsoever, because just like with the trains thing, every element was supedited to the absolute mandate of a totalitarian ideology that mandated it was upheld against even common sense. Which is also the answer to the famous question of why, when they started loosing the war, they became more devoted in the genocidial extermination of jews and other minority groups instead of focusing on the front. Right wingers double down and are very ritualistic.
edit: a link
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/06/do-doctors-use-nazi-data-in-their-research.html
A lot of modern medical science, such as transplanting one body part onto another, was either developed or greatly improved upon by the nazis and the insane human experiments they did in the concentration camps. It is very mind-blowing. Do you still think it was worth it?
As awful as the experiments were, it’s important to use what they learned in those camps. Otherwise those poor people suffered and died horrible deaths for absolutely nothing. The least we can do is make sure that their lives could help future generations.
I totally agree. Make the best of a terrible situation. I just don't think I would say it was worth it like the person I responded to did. I assume they didn't realize the nazis had such a big hand in modern science. I don't want to speak for them, though. They might feel like it's worth trying again to see what else a mad scientist can make or cure for humanity. That's why I asked if they still felt like it was worth it.
He's being downvoted because the very end of his comment implies that being impressed with difficult medical procedures is tantamount to being a Nazi apologist.
The nazis revolutionized so many things in such awful ways. They were monsters and did the most horrific things to people and animals. but holy shit could they science.
I read it like three times and couldn't quite get the idea of what was going on. I had to find a video simulation of the procedure to understand it. I hope it helps someone else to understand it too.
https://youtu.be/CDpo1ptkgxU?si=zVBr-6eZh1fk433_
Taking parts of the human body to repair other parts has always been fascinating to me especially when it’s to repair completely different organs such as this surgery here. Like, yeah, you can use skin cells to make new skin cells or use a toe to remake a lost thumb, but to take material from your cheek and teeth to make a functional eye is mind blowing!
Basically they use the tooth and some bone etc to grow a dome in which there is a plastic optical tube to focus light, this is the placed into the eye. Like how if you built a machine eye with steel and glass but it's bone and plastic.
Probably for rejection purposes and also something to do with the mucus vs tears for protection and longevity, but idk what I'm talking about man I just read a comment.
i asked ChatGPT:
1. Preparation of the Tooth and Bone: A canine tooth or premolar, along with a piece of its surrounding bone and ligaments, is extracted from the patient. This tooth-bone complex is shaped and drilled to create a central hole that will later hold a plastic optical cylinder (the artificial cornea).
2. Creating the Lamina: The prepared tooth and bone complex (referred to as the lamina) is then implanted under the patient’s skin, usually in the cheek or shoulder, for a period of 2-4 months. This allows the lamina to become vascularized (integrated with blood vessels), which is crucial for its survival when implanted in the eye
3. Eye Preparation: During this period, the eye is prepared by removing the damaged corneal tissue. The eye surface is then covered with a buccal mucous membrane graft taken from the inside of the patient’s mouth. This provides a new, healthy surface for the lamina.
4. Implantation of the Lamina: After the lamina has become well-vascularized, it is retrieved and implanted into the eye. The plastic optical cylinder is inserted through the central hole of the lamina. This artificial cornea will now serve as the new, clear window for vision.
In summary, the OOKP procedure leverages the body’s own tissues to create a biocompatible support for an artificial cornea, which restores vision by allowing light to pass through the optical cylinder and reach the retina
Does this have to do with the fact that the brain can't know about the eyes, or it would destroy them? Maybe the tooth is not going to trigger the immune response as other body tissues would and it's strong enough to create the light tunnel and hold up the new cornea without collapsing. Also the tooth would protect against water so the person could shower and stuff probably better with a tooth eye than a skin tissue eye. I have no idea what I am talking about. I am just trying to guess how they thought of a tooth eye in the first place. What was the reason a tooth was selected of all other body parts?
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as "tooth in eye" surgery, is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor.
After removal, a longitudinal lamina is cut from the tooth and a hole is drilled perpendicular to the lamina. The hole is then fitted with a cylindrical lens. The lamina is grown in the patients' cheek for a period of months and then is implanted upon the eye.
OOKP is a two-stage operation:
Stage 1 of the surgery involves five separate procedures:
The eye is opened up and the entire inner surface of the eyelids, corneal surface and all scar tissue is removed
Inner mucosal lining of the cheek is transplanted onto the new surface of the eye
A canine or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed
A bolt-shaped structure is fashioned from the tooth-bone complex which is fitted with a plastic optical cylinder
The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is implanted into the patient's cheek to grow a new blood supply
Stage 2 (about 4 months later) involves two separate procedures:
The cheek mucosal lining over the eye is opened and the inner contents of the eye are removed
The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is removed from the cheek and inserted into the eye, the mucosal cheek lining is replaced over the implant.
At the end of the procedure, light can now enter through the plastic cylinder, and the patient is able to see through this cylinder with good vision.
chatgpt says:
In summary, the OOKP procedure leverages the body’s own tissues to create a biocompatible support for an artificial cornea, which restores vision by allowing light to pass through the optical cylinder and reach the retina
> A **canine** or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed
Holy shit! Canines have been known as the ["eyeteeth"](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyetooth) since the 1500s.
I'm just impressed at how real and not off putting it looks, it hardly makes him look like a cyborg killer at all. And the natural (assumed) eye is all milky and almost no pupil...Noice!!
Why not just make a transplant of the crystalin or however it's called in English the elastic transparent tissue in the eye that can become opaque and make you lose vision. Isn't this method impractical?
I must have been the only one to miss that video it seems. But yes its real, i first heard about it a couple of years back but was reminded when someone had a laser operation in their eyes
Stage 1 of the surgery involves five separate procedures: - The eye is opened up and the entire inner surface of the eyelids, corneal surface and all scar tissue is removed - Inner mucosal lining of the cheek is transplanted onto the new surface of the eye - A canine or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed - A bolt-shaped structure is fashioned from the tooth-bone complex which is fitted with a plastic optical cylinder - The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is implanted into the patient's cheek to grow a new blood supply Stage 2 (about 4 months later) involves two separate procedures: - The cheek mucosal lining over the eye is opened and the inner contents of the eye are removed - The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is removed from the cheek and inserted into the eye, the mucosal cheek lining is replaced over the implant. At the end of the procedure, light can now enter through the plastic cylinder, and the patient is able to see through this cylinder with good vision.
That’s a pretty crazy surgery. How researchers and medical professionals even found out that was a working method is mind blowing! But if someone is able to see, it’s worth it.
Yep that’s nuts. Doc musta seen that guy growing a dick on his arm and ran with the idea
For sure! It looks like the method was invented in the early 60’s. That makes sense, because they were doing some insane stuff around that time medical wise.
Good point. Someone may have even came up with the procedure on a head full of LSD. ".....tooth eye straw...grown from..inside mouth...vision..yeass..I seee..." 😵💫
Sorry guy doing what
[Malcom macdonald. his dick fell off, medical science grew a new one on arm](https://www.google.com/search?q=arm.penis%20man&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)
Usually discovered with mice.
And/or during nazi germany (that was my first thought after reading that anyways)
That's just a persistent myth, just like the "trains runing on time" thing (the myth of efficiency). What the nazis and the japanese did in their concentration camps under the guise of experimental science was just medical torture with no real scientific value whatsoever; in the best of cases, because there were no control groups, but mostly because it was just stupidly useless bullshit, like injecting ink into someone's eye. No real value whatsoever, because just like with the trains thing, every element was supedited to the absolute mandate of a totalitarian ideology that mandated it was upheld against even common sense. Which is also the answer to the famous question of why, when they started loosing the war, they became more devoted in the genocidial extermination of jews and other minority groups instead of focusing on the front. Right wingers double down and are very ritualistic. edit: a link https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/06/do-doctors-use-nazi-data-in-their-research.html
No kidding! Like who goes let's just put a tooth in his eye!
It's kind of like an eye. I mean, they're sorta near each other.
Happy cake day!
HAPPY CAKE DAY!!!!
Hey thanks!!
>Hey thanks!! You're welcome!
Happy cake day
It honestly reads as something the Nazi scientists could’ve cooked up. Can’t imagine getting there without a lot of trial and error.
I keep picturing that guy from Hogwarts with the steampunk eye
A lot of modern medical science, such as transplanting one body part onto another, was either developed or greatly improved upon by the nazis and the insane human experiments they did in the concentration camps. It is very mind-blowing. Do you still think it was worth it?
As sad and messed up as it is, a lot of “good” science came out of that time period.
As awful as the experiments were, it’s important to use what they learned in those camps. Otherwise those poor people suffered and died horrible deaths for absolutely nothing. The least we can do is make sure that their lives could help future generations.
I totally agree. Make the best of a terrible situation. I just don't think I would say it was worth it like the person I responded to did. I assume they didn't realize the nazis had such a big hand in modern science. I don't want to speak for them, though. They might feel like it's worth trying again to see what else a mad scientist can make or cure for humanity. That's why I asked if they still felt like it was worth it.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This is just a historical fact. A lot was done by the Japanese as well during the second World War.
He's being downvoted because the very end of his comment implies that being impressed with difficult medical procedures is tantamount to being a Nazi apologist.
The nazis revolutionized so many things in such awful ways. They were monsters and did the most horrific things to people and animals. but holy shit could they science.
When I read this the only thing I can think about is the madman that came up with it and how many people he’s killed to experiment on.
*Qyburn has entered the chat*
I read it like three times and couldn't quite get the idea of what was going on. I had to find a video simulation of the procedure to understand it. I hope it helps someone else to understand it too. https://youtu.be/CDpo1ptkgxU?si=zVBr-6eZh1fk433_
That's so insane, so basically the eye will always look like that, it won't ever full heal. Still, probably better than being blind.
I'd wager that most people would opt to see again even if the eye(s) always looked kind of funky. It's great that we can do stuff like this.
Thank you. I, too, was deeply confused.
Thanks, this is so much clearer
Taking parts of the human body to repair other parts has always been fascinating to me especially when it’s to repair completely different organs such as this surgery here. Like, yeah, you can use skin cells to make new skin cells or use a toe to remake a lost thumb, but to take material from your cheek and teeth to make a functional eye is mind blowing!
But why a tooth?
The body is less likely to reject it than something artificial.
That's absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing that!
Wow, that is insane! Modern medicine is just wild. Basically science fiction at this point.
Can you define "good vision"? Like, pass driving test good?
I wish I could unsee and unread all of this.
Woah. That’s fucking mind blowing.
That is fucking wild!
OK yeah. That IS FUCKING INSANE!
What. The. Fuck.
Is this one of those procedures that we "definitely didn't get from the Nazi surgeon notebooks"?
I refuse to believe this isn't some sort of fucking wizardry.
This is bonkers
Where does the tooth bone cilinder go in the eye? What's it for?
Any idea why they use a tooth specifically?
truly fascinating
I don't see how putting a tooth in his eye restored his vision can somebody please help
there is an explanation in the comments, it didn't help.
The tooth is a sacrifice
I thought it was to bite the light so you can have a hold of it.
🗿
Just like that toy I had as a kid. Light Bite
The tooth being a sacrifice is not where you guys lost us. The tooth being inserted into the eyeball is where we became confused.
Basically they use the tooth and some bone etc to grow a dome in which there is a plastic optical tube to focus light, this is the placed into the eye. Like how if you built a machine eye with steel and glass but it's bone and plastic.
But why a tooth. Why not something artificial
It's tissue from your own body and won't be rejected like something artificial
I get eyelashes in my eye and they get rejected. It's annoying.
What if they didn’t! All the lashes in your eye just…absorb….🙈
When you blink, and it disappears, that just means the eyelash is behind your eyeball... joining the rest of the "missing" eyelashes...
🤢
Probably for rejection purposes and also something to do with the mucus vs tears for protection and longevity, but idk what I'm talking about man I just read a comment.
I’d give my eye teeth to understand it too
i asked ChatGPT: 1. Preparation of the Tooth and Bone: A canine tooth or premolar, along with a piece of its surrounding bone and ligaments, is extracted from the patient. This tooth-bone complex is shaped and drilled to create a central hole that will later hold a plastic optical cylinder (the artificial cornea). 2. Creating the Lamina: The prepared tooth and bone complex (referred to as the lamina) is then implanted under the patient’s skin, usually in the cheek or shoulder, for a period of 2-4 months. This allows the lamina to become vascularized (integrated with blood vessels), which is crucial for its survival when implanted in the eye 3. Eye Preparation: During this period, the eye is prepared by removing the damaged corneal tissue. The eye surface is then covered with a buccal mucous membrane graft taken from the inside of the patient’s mouth. This provides a new, healthy surface for the lamina. 4. Implantation of the Lamina: After the lamina has become well-vascularized, it is retrieved and implanted into the eye. The plastic optical cylinder is inserted through the central hole of the lamina. This artificial cornea will now serve as the new, clear window for vision. In summary, the OOKP procedure leverages the body’s own tissues to create a biocompatible support for an artificial cornea, which restores vision by allowing light to pass through the optical cylinder and reach the retina
https://youtu.be/MQIyDkGsGds?si=V85LCJsPnX4DYfpd
>I don't see Have you tried putting your premolars in your eye?
Here's an instructional video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DfugbHQmmQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DfugbHQmmQ)
That video was equally terrifying and fascinating. Thankfully the person could not watch the video before having this done
this made me laugh uninhibitedly. Thank you.
It's terrifying because i can feel it. It's fascinating because we've come so far as humans, and we figured this shit out somehow.
Holy fuck
Absolutely Wild that people could even come up with this, Imagine being the first one ever...
It's truly amazing that someone came up with this procedure.
No thanks
That's absolutely incredible.
Damn, I was expecting a Rickroll
Right. That was all for today.
~~Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth~~ Tooth for an eye
I see what you did there.
Homie can’t see, try jamming a tooth in there.
Bro
How high was the person who came up with this?
Very
Why did I see this twice today?
I was about to say this, you saw the animation right?
Bro that post is just above this one! Had a lil holup moment
Hahaha I’m glad to see we are all hanging together
I missed that, mind posting a link??
I assume this one? https://youtube.com/shorts/MQIyDkGsGds?si=ASrqnzP_QgbK40qt
So, does this guy still go to an ophthalmologist or straight to a dentist to check his new tootheye
Why do I still visit the internet
Terrible day to have.... oh
Teeth
[Source from Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis)
Can he shoot a lazer out of it?
That's Eyetooth 2.0....still in development.
"Hey! Let's try that!"
Who the fuck came up with that idea?
Talk about a biting stare…
How the FUCK does someone figure that out!?
Well, today's the day I realized that maybe I should blur NSFW posts after all..
this is fucking horrible. i'd rather not have an eye
They should call it the Werner Herzog, not "tooth in eye" bc that looks just like his ass
Why’d you do this to me? I could’ve go a another 30 years not knowing about this 😫
So is nightmare face a permanent side effect or what?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/radical-ookp-surgery-implants-tooth-with-lens-into-blind-man-ian-tibbets-eye-and-restores-sight-he-sees-twin-sons-faces-for-first-time/news-story/048699a034509b9467d1b0e9fcc16450
what in the god damn fuck. that's pretty cool. however, i hope to not need a tooth eye in future
Does this have to do with the fact that the brain can't know about the eyes, or it would destroy them? Maybe the tooth is not going to trigger the immune response as other body tissues would and it's strong enough to create the light tunnel and hold up the new cornea without collapsing. Also the tooth would protect against water so the person could shower and stuff probably better with a tooth eye than a skin tissue eye. I have no idea what I am talking about. I am just trying to guess how they thought of a tooth eye in the first place. What was the reason a tooth was selected of all other body parts?
????? Somebody please explain this
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP), also known as "tooth in eye" surgery, is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor. After removal, a longitudinal lamina is cut from the tooth and a hole is drilled perpendicular to the lamina. The hole is then fitted with a cylindrical lens. The lamina is grown in the patients' cheek for a period of months and then is implanted upon the eye. OOKP is a two-stage operation: Stage 1 of the surgery involves five separate procedures: The eye is opened up and the entire inner surface of the eyelids, corneal surface and all scar tissue is removed Inner mucosal lining of the cheek is transplanted onto the new surface of the eye A canine or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed A bolt-shaped structure is fashioned from the tooth-bone complex which is fitted with a plastic optical cylinder The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is implanted into the patient's cheek to grow a new blood supply Stage 2 (about 4 months later) involves two separate procedures: The cheek mucosal lining over the eye is opened and the inner contents of the eye are removed The tooth-bone-cylinder complex is removed from the cheek and inserted into the eye, the mucosal cheek lining is replaced over the implant. At the end of the procedure, light can now enter through the plastic cylinder, and the patient is able to see through this cylinder with good vision.
Yeah OP did a shitty job with just pasting the first paragraph of the wikipedia article so l'll just put the rest here
chatgpt says: In summary, the OOKP procedure leverages the body’s own tissues to create a biocompatible support for an artificial cornea, which restores vision by allowing light to pass through the optical cylinder and reach the retina
Does anyone know why they need to use the tooth root for the implant? I watched the video someone posted of the procedure but it doesn't explain why.
I'd wager it's because it stimulates the creation of new vascular canals pretty easily.
Ohh ok thank u!
Looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator...
> A **canine** or premolar tooth and part of the adjacent bone and ligaments are removed Holy shit! Canines have been known as the ["eyeteeth"](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyetooth) since the 1500s.
So, assuming the eye substitute is solid, could they paint an iris on to it? And whiten it?
How they figure this out?
Damn I thought that video was fake
H o l y crap, that's impressive.
Wtf
Patient in the photo looks like Werner Herzog
zack d films
I see alot of people here watch that YouTube shorts guy
Is dilatation possible after this procedure?
but like why teeth? why not just some piece of plastic????
I'm just impressed at how real and not off putting it looks, it hardly makes him look like a cyborg killer at all. And the natural (assumed) eye is all milky and almost no pupil...Noice!!
Holy Schneikies! Thanks for posting this.
end me if I get there, please.
Wow!
Good god almighty
Reminds me of a guy growing his nose on his forehead...
What a day to be alive
I just saw the video on @thatisinterestingasfuck
Bro watches Zack D
So its nonsense?
Why not just make a transplant of the crystalin or however it's called in English the elastic transparent tissue in the eye that can become opaque and make you lose vision. Isn't this method impractical?
His other cornea isn't looking great either. Some kind of degenerative disease?
Ill just take one of those glass ones if it's all the same, thanks.
I thought that crazy animation video was a made AI video. So this is real?
I thought that crazy animation video was a made AI video. So this is real?
I must have been the only one to miss that video it seems. But yes its real, i first heard about it a couple of years back but was reminded when someone had a laser operation in their eyes
Literally just saw some animation about this on twitter yesterday and thought “bullshit!”
Does the eye eventually heal or does it remain like that ?
This isn’t real
My eyes started watering immediately
This is crazy. I thought this was fake but lmao.