Eye piercing? WOW!

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - 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 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide 1 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 500 to 1,000 euros ($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 (www.NIIOC.nl).

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.

"Maybe we are just "just your basic down-to-earth-riders" 'round here but this is just a bit too far to suit my taste" And around here I'm usuallly the one labeled as "being far from the norm" TERRI

no way.

That didn't seem to catch on I don't think. Wonder why? :idunno:

ouch

i guess call me the "strange one" .... i like it

It is wicked but I really dont want to mess with my eyes...no matter what doctor is doing the surgery.

Don't mess around with the eyeballs. I've got a problem where my vitrious solution has a tendency to clump and float around inside the eye. Sometimes the clump will float in front of my retina and I can't see shit through my focal point. Most of the time it floats around my periferal vision, so I'm good, but when it's dead in front of the retina I'm as blind as a bat. There's nothing that can be done about it, so the doctors say. I'm just going to keep using it as an excuse to keep smoking weed :) It does help.

I do have an eye tat. I would like to have the one's mentioned above. I think it looks cool, however after having fun :cry: for almost a year with a scratched cornea that made being led around by the hand kinda interesting once in awhile-heh-nobody else in the mall knew I was naked-did they? I think I'd pass. :redeyes:
My eye-lid tats were done with the soft hand technique by a real pro. Looks very natural. Just like my eyes looked at 16. Now, I am good to go in just 2 minutes.
:flirt:

Just looking at that picture makes my eyes start to water.