I remember hearing an old person years ago asking why it was called a Blue Tooth, when it goes in your ear.

I wonder what he’d think of the eyetooth story I heard about a few weeks ago.

A 60-year-old woman, who had been blind for nine years, had a rare operation. Surgeons removed one of her teeth, drilled a hole in it, and put a plastic lens into the hole and implanted that tooth into her eye. She’s now got 20/70 vision (and probably a drivers license).

It takes a magnifying glass for her to read the newspaper (refrain from any jokes here at my expense).

She’s able to recognize faces, and when she heals, will be fitted for glasses, which will improve things.

She lost her vision because of severe allergic reactions to medication that blistered and scarred her cornea.

The canine tooth used, was chosen because of the amount of jawbone and ligaments attached, which are needed for it to stay alive and heal into the eye.

This procedure was actually invented in 1963, but there were complications when the tooth kept falling out of the patient’s eye.

I’m guessing there’s some kind of toothpaste/cavity joke I could probably think of at this point, but I’m tired.

And I wanted to get to the other technological eyesight story. It involves a three-year project with blind people who had electrodes surgically implanted in their eyes, with a camera on the bridge of the nose and a video processor attached to the waist.

Of the 37 participants, some are already able to tell plates from cups, the sidewalk from the lawn, and white socks from dark.

We need to get this technology to the old folks in Florida. Maybe it’ll keep them from wearing black socks with shorts.