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A blind man holding his cane
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An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.
"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.
After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.
The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient's own tooth and the surrounding bone.
The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
McNichol's right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.
The first operation lasted ten hours and the second five hours.
"It is pretty heavy going," McNichol said. "There was a 65 percent chance of me getting any sight.
"Now I have enough sight for me to get around and I can watch television. I have come out from complete darkness to be able to do simple things," McNichol said.
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本周三，在兩年前的一次爆炸事故中失明的一名愛(ài)爾蘭人稱(chēng)，醫(yī)生將其兒子的牙齒植入他的眼睛后，他得以重見(jiàn)光明。
57歲的鮑勃?麥克尼克來(lái)自愛(ài)爾蘭西部的梅奧郡。2005年11月，一個(gè)廢品回收站內(nèi)滾燙的鋁水發(fā)生意外爆炸，導(dǎo)致他失明。
麥克尼克在接受愛(ài)爾蘭國(guó)家電臺(tái)的采訪時(shí)說(shuō)：“我本以為自己再也看不見(jiàn)東西了。”
可就在愛(ài)爾蘭的醫(yī)生們束手無(wú)策之時(shí)，麥克尼克聽(tīng)說(shuō)英格蘭布萊頓市的蘇塞克斯眼科醫(yī)院有一位Chiristopher Liu博士，他能做一種名叫“骨齒人工角膜植入術(shù)”的神奇手術(shù)。
該技術(shù)于上世紀(jì)60年代起源于意大利，它是用病人自己的牙齒和牙齒附近的骨頭來(lái)支撐人造角膜。
麥克尼克23歲的兒子羅伯特參與了他的手術(shù)，他為父親提供了一顆牙齒及其牙根，以及下巴的一部分。
醫(yī)生首先將部分牙齒植入麥克尼克重建后的右眼眶，然后將人造晶體嵌入牙齒上鉆好的孔里。
第一次手術(shù)持續(xù)了十個(gè)小時(shí)，第二次持續(xù)了五個(gè)小時(shí)。
麥克尼克說(shuō)：“這個(gè)手術(shù)相當(dāng)復(fù)雜。我有65%的復(fù)明幾率。”
他說(shuō)：“以我現(xiàn)在的視力，我能夠四處走動(dòng)，還能看電視。我的眼前不再是一片漆黑，可以做一些簡(jiǎn)單的事情了。”
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