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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: An unbelievable story over in Canada twenty one years ago,

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Speaker 2: Brent Chapman went blind out of one eye. Kate can't

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Speaker 2: see out of one eye. And there's I'm very proud

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Speaker 2: of this, but there's an Australian doctor by the name

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Speaker 2: of Greg Maloney. You said, mat, Brent, I can get you.

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Speaker 2: I can get your site back in your right eye.

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Speaker 2: Have a listen to this procedure.

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Speaker 1: A pair of surgeons who have perfected this very unique

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Speaker 1: procedure in Australia. We'll remove one of Chapman's keenn Aine

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Speaker 1: teeth and glue a lens inside that tooth.

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Speaker 3: After we do the harvesting of the tooth, we implant

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Speaker 3: it into the cheek so it gathers a tissue lining

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Speaker 3: and three months time we remove it from the pocket

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Speaker 3: in the cheek and sold onto the front of the eye.

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Speaker 2: I don't get it. What so it throws a lens?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay. So this is Greg Maloney, Australian doctor. He finds

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Speaker 2: it very hard to explain to people what he does.

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Speaker 3: Job as a surgeon. I'm cutting jaws, breaking faces, moving

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Speaker 3: and reconstructing faces. But people have a hard time fathoming

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Speaker 3: what that actually means. So to tell them that I'm

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Speaker 3: putting a tooth in the front of the eyes just

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Speaker 3: it's absolutely mind blank.

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Speaker 2: I still don't get it. You still don't get it.

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Speaker 2: He's he's more of an explanation for you.

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Speaker 1: It won't look like a normal eye.

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Speaker 3: It's covered with some buckle tissue from inside the cheek

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Speaker 3: or the lip, and that will cover the whole structure,

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Speaker 3: so the eye will look pink with a small dark

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Speaker 3: circle in the middle.

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Speaker 2: So the tooth remains in the eye, Yeah, in the eye,

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Speaker 2: and there's a little camera that's in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the tooth, but the tooth becomes pink. So it sort

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Speaker 2: of looks like he stoned the guy and.

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Speaker 3: True pink he's the only words really got constant pink eye.

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Speaker 2: Haven't listened to the guy's voice because it it actually

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Speaker 2: matches the eye.

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Speaker 1: You take function over appearance, and you know, it's just

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Speaker 1: going to open up air doors for me. For Chapman,

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Speaker 1: it's a real chance at seeing the world the scene

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Speaker 1: where he did before his COMMA.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I don't understand. Where does the footage go to? Okay,

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Speaker 2: So it's so it's the tooth is acting like skin

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Speaker 2: that's going to be the new pupil of the eye.

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Speaker 2: And there is like a little camera that's inserted into

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Speaker 2: the tooth. Where does it go? So they hang on,

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Speaker 2: so the tooth is creating the structure for the camera

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Speaker 2: to sit inside. Where does the picture go? I know

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Speaker 2: what you're saying, where does it go? Irritating to his phone?

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Speaker 2: Last his brain? It turn How do you know? Well,

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Speaker 2: you don't, I know, but I'm making it up and

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Speaker 2: saying it with conviction.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if the camera image can go to his brain,

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Speaker 3: we have hit a new frontier because that's got a robot.

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Speaker 2: You think flossing his eyes would be very uncomfortable.

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Speaker 3: Very very I knew there was going to be something.

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Speaker 1: Lstine into his eye.

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Speaker 2: He'll be the first person to see his own smile.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize we were working another one. Well, he

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Speaker 2: can only use toothpaste with flue eyes in it. Wow,

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Speaker 2: he's one. His favorite food is cornea beef.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can see what you've done that.

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Speaker 2: It's good. What the white sauce is the sleep in

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Speaker 2: your eyes? Well, his partner said it was love at

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Speaker 2: first bite.

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Speaker 1: That winds.

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