TOOTH FOR AN EYE

An eye fro an eye and a tooth for a tooth, goes the Biblical expression.
But some doctors modified this slightly and used a tooth to give a blind man is eye back.
In a treatment that spanned five months, doctors restored sight in one Mr Ansari’s left eye using his own canine tooth, its root and surrounding bone.
The 50 year old, after tow years of being without vision in both eyes, could on Saturday recognize colours, shapes and count fingers at a distance of two feet.
The MOOKP which evolved 40 years ago in Italy depends on the patent’s canine tooth. It is used as a tissue to fuse a plastic cornea with the rest of the eye.
The contraption actually a silver of the tooth and the poly methyl metha acrylate (PMMA) cylinder reaches the retina, and optical vision is established.
A simple cornea transplant from the dead persons can fix their problem, but it does not work for all.
Some may be in the list of these unfortunates.
The message is simple for corneally blind persons.
There is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel.