A man's tooth became embedded in his eyeball following a horror .

The unnamed 56-year-old suffered the grisly after he was involved in a head-on , believed to have taken place in . He had been wearing a seatbelt at the time and was travelling at roughly 30mph.

His airbag deployed, but impact with the bag left him with a concussion and multiple injuries to his jaw, nose and eyelids. Incredibly, he also suffered a puncture to the left caused by a that came loose during the collision. The man, who wore glasses, was taken to the where doctors performed primary corneal wound closure.

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Eight days later, following monitoring of the area and his visual abilities, surgeons created a corneal limbal port – an incision made between the cornea and sclera. Two iris retractors were placed to enlarge the pupil and improve his vision.

A foreign body was extracted from his eye and later identified as part of a tooth – the man’s right lower first premolar. The patient’s vision was significantly reduced two weeks after the second surgery, operating at a best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/800.

The shocking case was shared recently in a medical journal, which also said occupants in the front seat of vehicles are twice as likely to sustain eye injuries during crashes from the deployment of frontal airbags.

This comes after a woman suffered horrific injuries when a during an MRI scan. The 22-year-old patient inserted the "butt plug" in her back passage before she went for the MRI scan. It was dragged from her rectum and up into her body by the scanner's powerful magnets. She believed the sex toy was made entirely out of silicone - but it actually contained metal in its core