Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) is a procedure that uses a patient’s ...

TIL that osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP) is a procedure that uses a patient’s own tooth implanted in their eye to craft a support structure for an artificial cornea to restore vision.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5903185/
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