Surgeons can rebuild an eye's window out of one of your own teeth
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#779RT)
When a patient's cornea is too scarred for a donor transplant to take - after a chemical burn, say, or Stevens-Johnson syndrome - surgeons have a fallback: they build a new window for the eye out of one of the patient's own teeth. - Read the rest
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