one of our customers is contemplating this operation. It has to do with the I tooth and the stem cells that are grow in there. They use those stem cells to create a artificial cornea, or at least from what I have learned.
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To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:21 AMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] blindness restored by operation using patient's eye tooth.
Did any of you see (it was an article on the yahoo.com news page) about the Florida woman (not anyone whom I recognized a one of our volunteers) (whose vision was restored by an operation that involved removing her eye tooth and implanting a lens into hole sculpted in it the yahoo article was from a UPI article and I think it also said it could be found on nbc.com. The operations sounds awful to me.I think having known all of you and how well you cope with blindness that if I became blind at my age I would prefer to adjust to it anad live with it than to go through that operation.she wasn't born blind but had been blinded by a reaction to a medication CindyWish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites belowWish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+ListBooks Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+ListTo unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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