07-06-2009, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Bacn
But I still want to know why the tooth will accept the lens yet the eye won't.
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I think basically the tooth grew tissues and blood vessels right? So instead of just the lens being there, the eye would accept the tooth to hold in the lens cause of the tissues/blood vessels that would attach and keep it together? Like Negal said the tissue from the tooth can "bond" with the inside of the eye and keep the lens from being rejected from the eye as a foreign object.
Think of a surface piercing in..idk, your cheek. Your flesh inside will slowly push it out and reject it, then will leave a scar cause it's a foreign object in the way. People get special piercings if they want it done permanently, where a plate with holes is inserted in so tissue can grow around it, and hold in that piercing in place.
I'm guessing the tooth stuff will come together with the eye stuff and keep that lens in.
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