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Creepy Wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I will graft your tooth into your eye" would've been a good contender in the unsettling threats thread

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

gasp A CALL BACK!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Surg tech with about 8 years experience - never heard of this one. Some of the shit we do...

Anyway, image search at your own risk. Here's the least nightmare-fuel image I could find:

...so we basically use tooth tissue to replace the iris? Seems like something we could just use a specialized contact lens for, without needing to graft an actual biologic... then again, maybe that's why I've never heard of it :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds very much like a hold my beer solution.

Drunk: bet you couldn’t fix blindness with mah tooth!

Drunk eye surgeon: hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Brother, what