We’ve all heard about eye teeth, but have you ever heard of a tooth helping someone regain their sight? Without a doubt, the story sounds incredible, but it’s true.
Sixty-year-old Sharron “Kay” Thornton became blind in both eyes after contracting a rare illness, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, nine years earlier. The damage to the cornea from scarring left doctors unable to try more traditional treatment, like cornea transplants. Doctors tried a stem cell procedure but that was unsuccessful.
As a last ditch attempt to help Kay regain her vision, eye surgeons decided to try a relatively rare procedure called a modified osteo-odonto-keatroprosthesis. Only 600 …read more

When most of us think of organ transplants, we usually think of the biggies, like the heart, the kidney, the liver – and that’s ok because it’s what we hear most about. But there’s a lesser known one that may not save a life, but it sure changes a whole life around: a cornea transplant.
When Tricia Carlisle-Northcutt, founder of Right Brain Strategies & PR , was 16 years old, she was diagnosed with an eye disorder called keratoconus . According to the National Keratoconus Foundation , “Keratoconus, often abbreviated to “KC”, is a non-inflammatory eye condition in which …read more