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Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.

The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye -  has now pierced his world of darkness.

The procedure, performed fewer than 50 times before in Britain, uses the segment of tooth as a holder for a new lens grafted from his skin.

Martin Jones opens his newly-sighted eye fitted with a tooth

Seeing clearly: Martin Jones opens his newly-sighted eye fitted with a tooth

Mr Jones, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, married his wife Gill, 50, four years ago.
It was only when a revolutionary new operation was pioneered at the Sussex Eye Clinic in Brighton that he was given a chance to have his sight back.
Christopher Liu

Surgeon Christopher Liu used a living tooth to carry a new lens because Mr Jones' eye could reject a plastic implant