Surgeons implant glittering shapes into eye's membrane

"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry.

Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called “JewelEye” in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.

The procedure involves inserting a 0.13 inch wide piece of specially developed jewelry -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye’s mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of $610 to $1,232.

“In my view it is a little more subtle than (body) piercing. It is a bit of a fun thing and a very personal thing for people,” said Gerrit Melles, director of the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery.

The piece of jewelry is inserted in the conjunctiva -- the mucous membrane lining the inner surface of the eyelids and front of the eyeball -- in sterile conditions using an operating microscope in a procedure taking about 15 minutes.

“Without doing any harm to the eye we can implant a jewel in the conjunctiva,” Melles said. “So far we have not seen any side effects or complications and we don’t expect any in the future.”

The Rotterdam-based institute, which develops new ocular surgical techniques in corneal, cataract and retinal surgery, developed and patented the jewelry made with special materials and the surgical procedure.

The institute, which carries out the procedure in cooperation with an eye clinic near the city of Utrecht, said it has a waiting list for people who wanted the implant."


Ok this is just GROSS. how much further is this world gonna get into this altering of the body so much!? they say in the article that its not damaging to the eye at all... but i bet in the future they will find it hurts the eye somehow, because the eye is such a delicate area.
I really like my eyesight... i wouldnt risk losing it or damaging it with some stupid trend...

Ew that is just disgusting. :mad:

That kinda reminds me of the forked tongue.. UUeeaaHHaaAhh.. I wonder if you see the little pieces of jewelry when you open your eyes.. w00t.

The eyeball thing doesn't bother me very much. It's pretty mild compared to.. oh.. say.. the piercing of a very private and delicate area. Heck, even the nipple piercing freaks me out more than eyeball jewelry.

AAAAHH.. BAD mental image..

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Originally posted by smellthecolor9
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it looks really stupid.

Yeah its certainly not worth it. People are so stupid.

Originally posted by :x:Amaranth:x:
it looks really stupid.

and it just looks disgusting... all those blood vessels around it will probably break, and that person will wake up one day with a bloody eye

It looks odd.. like the thing is glued onto the eyeball. *_*;

I doubt I will ever pay someone to put pieces of metal in my eyeball.

I know somewhere you can get it done for free..

.. It won't be jewelry, though.. :eek:

That is a completely stupid thing to do.

Originally posted by ksurfur
My eye just twitched, as if to say, 'just try it, bitch'.

I thought it was kind of neat. Ugly. But still neat.

wow, I thought we had crazy fads

Originally posted by Konstantine
Ew that is just disgusting. :mad:

Yes and who forks their tounges? Next thing you know there will be butt peircings! ;]

I dont see how its disgusting, stupid, but not disgusting.

Originally posted by madame mandy
Yes and who forks their tounges? Next thing you know there will be butt peircings! ;]

There ARE butt piercings.

.. BAD MENTAL IMAGE..

That looks bad... or at least thats what I think, and how can it be healthy?

Originally posted by madame mandy
Yes and who forks their tounges? Next thing you know there will be butt peircings! ;]

haha. i think someone on the boards once posted a link to sphincter(sp) piercing.

I wanted to bring this thread back to life after like 1 1/2 years- so comment people.

I think that it is gross and looks really ugly. I thought that it would be sparkly, but it looks like one of those big pieces of glitter without the glitter in it.

Why the hell would u pull up an old thread?

why the hell would you be such a bitch?

I thought it sounded kinda cool at first...based only on my mental image...but once I saw the pic, I decided its gross. It doesnt even look cute. It just makes that persons eye look creepy, like they got something stuck in it.

and plus talking to someone with that would probably creep me out.

Why the hell would u pull up an old thread?

Its actually interesting...ive never heard of that before...

i wonder what happens when someone gets that put in thier eye and then decides they dont want it anymore? if they take it out, would the person's eye have an indent of a heart?

^that would look stupid

and wut if they accidently rub their eyes at night or something? ouch

ew yeh i herd about this b4 no way would i pay to have that done ick im bad enuff with peircings no way in hell am i getting that done noooo.
ewww i got bad images ov ppl getn that done now ew ew ew.

well, I thought that it would be like a jewel around the colored part of your eye. But that was really ugly. It would be cool if around your eye was like a sapphire or something, but I hope those people don't go blind

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