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(CBS SF) A Minnesota grandfather burst into laughter after seeing his wife for the first time in a decade last week with help from a bionic eye implant.
Allen Zderad, 68, suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that often causes blindness. He hasnt even some of his ten grandchildren in the last 10 years, according to a statement from Mayo Clinic.
The former 3M employee turned out to be the ideal patient for the first clinical trial at Mayo Clinicinvolving a bionic eye implant that works by sending light wave signals to the optic nerve, bypassing the damaged retina all together.
Hes now just a handful of people in the world to get the eye implant known as Second Sight II retinal prosthesis system.
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