Partial pigment removal.
In a brown eye, a thin layer of brown pigment covers the anterior iris, preventing light creating an opaque brown iris; in a blue eye, the Strōma fibers of the iris scatter incoming white light, creating a translucent, blue-gray appearance.
The outcome of the surgery is the removal of the brown stromal pigment and the emergence of the underlying natural blue Strōma.
(Photo courtesy of Strōma)
“We all have blue eyes, underneath our brown iris”, Said
Greg Homer, the researcher & inventor of first non-invasive cosmetic
surgery that changes eye color from brown to blue permanently. The new
technology StrOma, is a painless procedure that transforms dark brown eyes to
blue via low-laser surgery, thus lift patient’s reliance from upon colored contact lenses.
Though, it sounds tempting enough to have beautiful blue
eyes; eye care professionals have shown their concern by associating the
surgery with inflammation, ocular damage & excessive light sensitivity that
could be potentially damaging in the long run.
“I have strong concerns that the risks of this procedure will
significantly outweigh any real or imagined benefits,” Said Dr. Kamran Riaz, director of
refractive surgery in the Department of Ophthalmology & Science at the University
of Chicago. Some doctors are skeptical
of such surgeries. Mark Sheldon an ethicist at Rush University Medical Centre
in Chicago suggested patients to discriminate between plastic surgery and
cosmetic surgery where the former is taken to reconstruct the tissues damaged
in burns whereas the latter is only advertised in magazines, directly enchasing
women’s insecurities. “Surgery should only be undertaken when there is no other
choice left”, said Sheldon.
Homer explained that brown eyes are covered by a thin layer
of brown pigment that is gradually removed by the strOma laser. Once the front
layer of tissues is removed, the natural blue tint appears that takes a period
of only 30 seconds. The procedure often leaves a limbal ring (from the darker
pigment of the brown) which Homer compares with beautiful hazel green eyes of
Sharbat Gula, an Afghan women featured on the cover of National Geographic.
Homer criticizes concealing the brown
iris using contact lenses as he expresses it does not exist naturally and looks
fake. On the other hand, advocates of contact lenses jump in the discussion by
providing a safe, hurdle-free & cost-effective alternative for color
transformation in the form of colored lenses. The StrOma treatment is expected
to carry a price tag of US$5000 upon hitting the consumer market whereas
contact lenses are available for as low as US$ 20.00
Would you like to undergo a strOma
surgery or would stick to contact lenses for color transformation?
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