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2015 Mar 6, 10:05am 4,810 views 11 comments

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New Procedure Changes Brown Eyes To Blue

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/03/05/new-procedure-changes-brown-eyes-to-blue/

BOSTON (CBS) â€“ Thereâ€™s little question that blue eyes, for whatever reason, are considered an attractive facial feature, and only 17% of the worldâ€™s population has them. The vast majority of us have brown eyes. But apparently, for the right price, you, too, can have blue eyes.

The only way to change your eye color has been to wear colored contact lenses, but now thereâ€™s a new procedure that change brown eyes to blue.

According to ophthalmologists, we all have blue eyes below our brown eyes, under a thin layer of pigment.

A California company has now developed a laser treatment that disturbs the melanin in the pigmented part of the eye and causes the body to eliminate it over time. The procedure only lasts seconds, but it may take weeks before the blue tint emerges.

This laser treatment is not available here in the U.S. yet, but has been tested overseas with success. Researchers claim it is safe but have to conduct more clinical trials before they can apply for FDA approval.

Some ophthalmologists are concerned that tampering with pigment could cause blockages and increase pressure in the eyes.

The procedure is expected to cost around $5,000.

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Ceffer 2015 Mar 6, 10:08am

Why be an attractive person in your native pigment when you can be a really weird looking pseudo white person.

turtledove 2015 Mar 6, 10:17am

How often would you say that the village idiot (as might be depicted in movies) has brown eyes?

zzyzzx 2015 Mar 6, 11:24am

I think this idea is silly, but I bet there is money to be made in it, and probably no investment opportunity either.

I think my eyes are getting lighter as I get older anyway. No procedure required.

Shaman 2015 Mar 6, 2:39pm

Or what if you stop seeing in color? Or lose most of your colors? Seems a silly thing to do. I've gotten by with brown eyes all my life, so has my wife. Of course it was a surprise that my daughter has blue eyes, but my son had blue eyes too for three months then they went dark brown. Who knows? Anyway it's a silly metric to focus on.

curious2 2015 Mar 6, 3:15pm

zzyzzx says

Some ophthalmologists are concerned that tampering with pigment could cause blockages and increase pressure in the eyes.

I wonder if it might also increase UV exposure and macular degeneration, which can cause blindness. A thinner iris, of a lighter color, would block less UV light.

"It takes a while before melanin is deposited fully in human eyes, so babies often have pale or blue eyes, even though their eyes may change color later in life."

This laser procedure takes "looking younger" to an absurd extreme, reverting eye color to infancy.

Billions of years of evolution did the best they could with you. I see people wearing blue contact lenses for fashion; the look doesn't suit them at all, but at least they aren't damaging their actual eyes. Years ago Bausch & Lomb started adding blue "visibility tinting" even to their corrective lenses, which does make them easier to see in the tray but does not improve their function; to the contrary, the purpose of contact lenses was to correct vision without being visible. If you have blond or red hair and fair skin, then I suppose blue eyes might complete that look, but why risk your eyesight simply to change the color of the iris? I have never seen a person who didn't naturally have "nice eyes;" it's the one compliment you can almost always say about people regardless of what they look like otherwise. I suppose the next step is to have your eyes replaced with marbles, so that you can't see what you look like.