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When cosmetic surgeon Allan Wu first heard the woman’s complaint, he wondered if she was imagining things or making it up.

A resident of Los Angeles in her late sixties, she explained that she could not open her right eye without considerable pain and that every time she forced it open, she heard a strange click—a sharp sound, like a tiny castanet snapping shut.

After examining her in person at The Morrow Institute in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wu could see that something was wrong: Her eyelid drooped stubbornly, and the area around her eye was somewhat swollen.

Six and a half hours of surgery later, he and his colleagues had dug out small chunks of bone from the woman’s eyelid and tissue surrounding her eye, which was scratched but largely intact.

The clicks she heard were the bone fragments grinding against one another.

Executive Summary via @tomroyal on Twitter:

“Woman uses unapproved stem-cell based cosmetic treatment…

Grows extra bones.

In her eyelids.”

So…

Yeah…

Sleep well, everyone!

read the whole story at scientificamerican.com

Also: “The Morrow Institute”? This takes Dammit Morrow to a whole new level.