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I thought this was a joke at first when I saw a link saying it involved the "eye tooth" (aka the canine). It's not. They legit extract the canine, install a lens, grow tissue around it, and implant it in the patient.

And apparently this has been done for decades (on a very small scale)!

Wow, humans think of some crazy stuff.

Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP)

Google that if you want to see how their eyes end up.

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reminds me somehow of the creationist line about a tornado assembling a fully functional jetliner

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