Ever Wanted Light Coloured Eyes? Now You Can In 20 Seconds

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Have you always wanted lighter coloured eyes? Well, soon you will be able to have those blue eyes you’ve always dreamed of because Californian company, Stroma Medical, is introducing a new medical procedure.

The laser procedure works by eliminating melanin – the dark pigment that causes the colour in your eye, on your skin and in your hair – from the surface of your iris, which will then allow light to enter and scatter in the stroma of your eye, the fibers seen in light-coloured eyes.

“The fundemental principle is that under every brown eye is a blue eye,” Dr Gregg Homer told CNN.

According to him, there's no actual pigmentation in a blue eye.

“The only difference between a brown eye and a blue eye is this very thin layer of pigment on the surface. If you take that pigment away, then the light can enter the stroma – the little fibers that look like bicycle spokes in the light eye – and when the light scatters it only reflects back the shortest wavelengths, and that’s the blue end of the [colour] spectrum.”

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The laser treatment will disrupt the frigile layer of pigment on the iris, and this causes the body to start removing the tissue naturally. The procedure only takes about 20 seconds, but the blue eyes don’t emerge for several weeks because the body only releases the pigment gradually.

Homer says that the procedure is very safe and that it only treats the iris without entering any other part of the eye where the nerves affecting vision are located.

Stoma Medical aspires to develop the safest, cheapest and most convenient procedure available, but it has yet to gain approval from the regulatory bodies in the United States.

Meanwhile, the ophtalmologists in the medical industry are not particulary receptive to the procedure. Their skepticisms arise from the fact that eyes are one of the most sensitive organs in the body, and that the procedure is irreversible.

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