Tooth Used to Restore Woman's Sight

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

Tooth Used to Restore Woman's Sight

Health News, Science News

MIAMI (Sept. 16) -- Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron "Kay" Thornton to suicide.

In the end, it was one of her teeth and a procedure surgeons said was never before done in the United States that restored her sight.

"It was very embarrassing and humiliating for my daughter to take care of me, and it wasn't supposed to be that way. I'm supposed to take care of her," the 60-year-old woman told CNN on Wednesday.

I thought about suicide, but then I thought, if I did it, I probably wouldn't do it right," she said. Instead, "I just asked God to help me. I couldn't do it by myself. He taught me patience, and I never gave up."

Her hopes were raised when she qualified at the University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute for a months-long procedure in which an eye tooth (also called canine or cuspid) was implanted in one eye as a base to hold a prosthetic lens. Her bandages were removed over the Labor Day weekend.

Nearly two weeks later, her visual acuity is 20/70 without corrective lenses in the treated eye, said Dr. Victor Perez, associate professor of ophthalmology, and a cornea specialist at the institute.

Thornton, a former restaurant manager from Smithdale, Mississippi, who has three children, lost her sight in 2000 after she was stricken with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, apparently caused by medication she was taking.

The illness is described by the Mayo Clinic as a rare disorder in which a person's "skin and mucous membranes react severely to a medication or infection." The disease causes "a painful red or purplish rash that spreads and blisters, eventually causing the top layer of skin to die and shed."

She also lost her hair, all nails and most of her skin.

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

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[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

See the link to look a woman's photo:
Sharron "Kay" Thornton can see again after doctors implanted a tooth fitted with a prosthetic lens in one eye. It was the first time the procedure was done in the U.S. Notice that it appears to be a flesh ball in the eye socket, but has a protrusion from the center. Click on link below to view.

[James and Terry Hamilton]

Thornton, a former restaurant manager from Smithdale, Mississippi, who has three children, lost her sight in 2000 after she was stricken with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, apparently caused by medication she was taking.


SO the drug s and eugenics freaks were the main cause Mis appropiated medicine and then more experiments...Oh well such is man always trying to be a greater god.

However it is nice that they fixed their mess...