Thigh muscle transplant allows boy to open his eyes for first time

A VIRTUALLY blind boy can see for the first time after surgeons performed a rare operation to transplant muscle from his thigh to allow him to open his eyelids, it emerged yesterday.

Dominic Head was born with a severe abnormality which meant his eyelid muscles were so weak that he could not open them to see properly.

The five-year-old's eyesight was hindered further by a mass of dark eyelashes.