Here is an article from SkyNews in England July 2009
A blinded man has seen his wife for the first time after surgeons gave him back his sight using one of his teeth.
Martin Jones can see for the first time in 12 years. Pic: Ross Parry Syndication
Martin Jones' canine was pulled out so a tiny optical lens could be fitted to it.
Then, amazingly, the tooth was inserted in his eye socket.
The 42-year-old lost his left eye and was totally blinded in the right 12 years ago when a tub of molten aluminium exploded in his face at the scrapyard where he worked.
He had all but given up hope of ever seeing again until hearing about operations performed by surgeon Christopher Lui and his team in Brighton, East Sussex.
Martin Jones
Mr Jones had his tooth was implanted in his cheek for three months to grow blood vessels and new tissue.
Once it was moved into his eye it was around two weeks until he could see.
He said when the bandages came off the first person he wanted to see was his 50-year-old wife Gill.
The pair had married four years ago and settled down in Rotherham, South Yorkshire - but Jones had never seen his bride.
"The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water," he explained to the Sun newspaper.
"Then I saw this figure and it was her, it was unbelieveable."
He added: "When I tell friends I see through my tooth they don't believe me."
"But then I take off my glasses - and my eye looks like something from a sci-fi movie."
===================================================================Growing your own
Whoever is afraid of stem cell research, come on buddy, grow a pair.
Can you imagine a time when we will be able to "grow" new eyes, a heart, limbs, organs.
Bye bye Alzheimer's, so long diabetes, toodle-loo dialysis...
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Today's technology is promising...
But then again, sometimes you just get lucky.
Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again
Reporting
- Brown Recluse Spider
"I closed my eyes and then I was spinning like a flying saucer," explains David Blancarte.
A motorcycle accident almost killed David 21 years ago. At the time he might have wished he was dead.
"I asked my doctor, 'Sir what happened? I can't feel my legs'," said David.
Ever since, David's been relying on his wheelchair to get around. Then the spider bite. A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months.
"I'm here for a spider bite. I didn't know I would end up walking," says David.
A nurse noticed David's leg spasm and ran a test on him.
"When they zapped my legs, I felt the current, I was like 'whoa' and I yelled," he says.
He felt the current and the rush of a renewed sense of hope.
"She says,'your nerves are alive. They're just asleep'," explained David.
Five days later David was walking.
"I was walking on the bar back and forth," he said.
Now David is out of the hospital and on his feet and walking.
David basks in his glory and gives a ray of hope to other hoping to walk again. The 48-year-old former boxer and dancer is taking it in stride, knowing his best days are still ahead.
David's dream is to see his 14-year-old twin daughters grow up and get married so he can walk them down the aisle and have that first dance.
Blancarte's dreams may have to wait. He was arrested Friday (3/13) on an outstanding warrant stemming from a domestic abuse case.
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