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You don't need horror movies with such science.


Or at any rate with such headlines.

We've adopted the more neutral subtitle now.


The title "For the 1st time in Canada, surgeons put teeth in patients' eyes to restore sight" is much clearer than "Surgery aims to restore sight by implanting a telescopic lens in a tooth".

First, the tooth is put into the eye — used as biocompatible material to hold the lens. Second, the surgery is 60 years old and has something like a 94% success rate after 27 years, so it's hardly fair to say "surgery _aims_ to restore sight". It almost certainly will restore sight. The part that is interesting in this story is that it's an uncommon surgery that is happening only for the first time _in Canada_.


Those are good points. dcminter suggested a different wording, which might have a less agitating effect, so we can try that for a while.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208774


Thanks! Your hard work is appreciated.


The title should be edited. It's missing the main part which is that the tooth will be implanted in the eye of the patient, not left in their mouth.


Apparently the title was edited since I posted it—it was originally about the same as the article.


You did nothing wrong! it's a fine submission, and the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) call for using the original title "unless it misleading or linkbait".

The linkbaity effect of the original wasn't obvious until we started seeing it in the comments. Once that happens, though, we've learned that replacing the title with more neutral wording is the #1 thing to do to get a thread back on topic and into curiosity land (as opposed to sensational land).


Makes sense—thanks for sharing this!



An.. eye-tooth, if you will.


I guess it does bring new meaning to the phrase “eye teeth”.


An eye for an (eye|tooth) and a tooth for a (tooth|eye).


I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's teeth

Oh, it's your own teeth they use. That answers one question.


Okay, what the actual fuck?




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