MONDAY, JAN 7 (News Locale) - Call it a miracle or a scientific wonder, but the fact is that doctors in Mumbai restored the eyesight of a poor blind hand-cart puller Bast in Uttar Pradesh by performing the rare ‘tooth-in-eye’ surgery.  

In an operation that lasted for about five months doctors from the Taparia Eye Institute of Bombay Hospital at New Marine Lines reinstated the vision in 50-year-old Bakridi Ansari’s left eye using his own canine tooth, its root and adjoining bone!

While the entire process may sound too technical, the doctors, implanted a canine tooth was inside Ansari’s eye to restore his vision. And Ansari, who did not have vision in both the eyes, could see like a normal person following the final operation carried out by Dr Sonia Nankani and her team on Saturday. Describing the doctors has his God; an ecstatic Ansari said that he could not find words to thanks Dr Nankani and her colleagues.

Ansari, a father of six children, lost his eyesight over a decade ago owing to corneal ulcers and underwent two corneal transplants, but did not get his eyesight back. For the last two years, he was completely blind and went in for a Modified Osteo Ordonto Kerato Prosthesis (MOOKP – a surgery performed for the first time in Maharashtra.

The MOOKP is a multifaceted two-stage surgery that aims to reinstate vision to the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients who have failed to respond to all previous attempts to restore vision.

The process includes removing a canine tooth from the patient, shaping and drilling it to allow implantation of an artificial plastic corneal device and ultimately implanting it back into one eye a few months later.

It is a unique example of multi-disciplinary collaboration involving a dedicated group of eye surgeons, dental surgeons, anesthetists, radiologists, and visual therapists/ psychologists combining their skills and expertise in a complex procedure that ultimately brings vision back to patients who will otherwise remain blind.

This surgery has now become a practical option for many blind patients who have lost their sight due to severe damage to their corneas and front part of the eye and eyelids.

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