It's really our first foray into this.

Or we can create very specific prosthetics for that individual.

Yes, demand is growing. I headed to Gangnam to meet a man who has experienced these fake funerals before. He's a dentist, well known in his field.

My parents are dentists

The top one is from a normal animal, the middle one is from a blind animal that's been treated with this encoder transducer device, and the bottom one is from a blind animal treated with a standard prosthetic.

I'm just a dentist.

And he's a dentist!

(Laughter)

Bernard's a dentist...

And so, as a result, some crazy things have happened.

The dentist pulled out her bad tooth.

My mother... a shirley partridge wannabe... would like for me to go to dental school.

One part of medicine, though, has faced the problem of behavior change pretty well, and that's dentistry.

They don't do it as much as they should, but they do it.

One second. Dr. Oseranksy's office.

Mr Suzuki is not a dentist but a physician.

Mr. Suzuki isn't a dentist. He's a physician.

So this is what we've been working on, and this is what our prosthetic does.

He is a dentist by profession.

The year is 2005.

I don't even think she's a member of the dental profession.

Dentists take x rays to examine your teeth.

The problem is that current prosthetics don't work very well.

She practices as a dentist.

A lot of bigwigs go to that dentist.

How are you spelling that?

How do you spell that?

Neighbors came and went. Under President Adams, a local dentist happened by.

It happened that her husband was a dentist.

Matter of fact, I have a terrible toothache.

The medical building over there. He's a doctor and I'm a dentist.

How do you spell pretty ?

You spelled capacitor wrong.

His daemons... Daemon.

The second example I want to tell you about comes from a collaboration I have with Dr. Margrit Maggio at the Penn Dental School.

So we described these as cool boots.

Look, if this is about the amount of nitrous oxide I gave you...

I need to restock the supply drop.

That's right. Three witnesses

(Laughter)

And lucky that brother wasn't some oral hygenist or something. A Marine we could use.

And then the transducer then makes the output cells send the code on up to the brain, and the result is a retinal prosthetic that can produce normal retinal output.

Or with this

Master of Science in Animal Science.

You know, food is sort of my consolation...