Eyeball Jewelry: Add Some Bling To Your Eye With Platinum Jewelry Inserted In Your Eyeball

Jul 26, 2018 by apost team

If you thought a grill for your teeth was extreme, brace yourself. We are now moving on to jewelry for the eyeball.

New York City ophthalmologist Dr. Emil Chynn has started putting platinum "SafeSight" jewelry in the eyes of American patients. He says this has been done hundreds of times in Europe without a problem.

So far, there have been only three takers in the US.

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For those wanting more sparkle in their eye, you can get a 3mm-by-4mm-wide platinum heart, star or other piece of small jewelry surgically implanted. The doctor claims the operation is pain-free and heals in a mere three days.

Supposedly, once it is healed, people don't even feel it, in part because it is carefully smoothed, polished and fitted to the natural shape of the eye. The jewelry is only available in platinum because some people have allergic reactions to gold. Platinum is considered hypoallergenic. But you need the dough to spare to get the bling. It costs a cool $3,000 to get the initial procedure and another $1,000 to have your bling changed out for new bling.

The surgery involves a topical anesthetic and local sterilization of the eyeball surface. Then the eye is held open with a speculum and the surgeon makes a small incision between the sclera and the conjunctiva. Then the bling is popped into place.

For reasons we can't understand, Americans are not exactly standing in line to get this. Dr. Chynn says there are only two or three people in all of the US who have gotten eye bling. He's doing less than one procedure per year. With more than 300 million Americans out there, that's well below one percent of the population. Like, way, way below.

Eye jewelry got its start in Holland and has been around for at least ten years. But, so far, it's mostly staying on that side of the pond.

Lucy Luckayanko had it done in 2013 when she was 25 years old. She was the first in the US, making her a ground-breaker. She got a platinum heart placed in her right eye. Her thought was that it would be a conversation maker, a unique detail that would make her stand out socially. She went back to work within a couple of days.

But the American Academy of Ophthalmology isn't crazy about the idea. They have put out statements reminding people this is an unproven procedure, its safety track record isn't really established and it has no therapeutic value. Of course, they're killjoys, but, hey, that's kind of their job.

Do you think this is cool? Or do you think it's all ewww? Check out the procedure (if you dare!) and let us know what you think:

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