And it gives me the willies. What f-ing idiot would do this? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&u=/nm/20040407/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_eye_1&printer=1 The latest fashion must-have: eyeball jewellery Wed Apr 7, 1:00 PM ET AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way -- the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery 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 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewellery -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros (270 to 540 pounds). "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 (www.NIIOC.nl). The piece of jewellery 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 jewellery 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.
"Without doing any harm to the eye", my a$$. I seriously doubt that won't have some sort of bad effect somewhere down the line. Tattoos, piercings...all cool with that. But something about messing with the eyeball seems like flirting with disaster.
And how do you get them back out? Or do you? The eyes are not designed to tolerate foreign objects. Keep that in mind. It would get seriously inflamed, you would think. Of course, I feel that a lot of the piercings and "body art" popular these days have already crossed the line into self-mutilation. But what do I know. It must be eyeball week here on the bbs...
I can't see how this would possibly take off and be big. Too many people have phobias concerning the eye (A-Train for example) Not to mention, any kind of complication could lead to blindness, and I'm not willing to lose any more of my eyesight to a fad.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way -- the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery 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. So 7 people = a trend?
Dang, that is wack. Just think about it, somewhere down the road there has to be problems. I mean, the eye like any other part of the body would harden itself or something like that because of iritation....wouldn't it?!
Pretty much every place on the human body will reject a piercing except for the earlobes. Most places swell and get infected and even split asunder (Prince Albert)
I get chills when I see people putting on contact lens. It just looks uncomfortable putting on and taking them off, but this is just downright scary.
