WTF!?!




AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way -- the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery.


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Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery 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 piece of specially developed jewellery -- 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 (270 to 540 pounds).

"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 jewellery 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 jewellery 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.

[This message was edited Thu Apr 8 0:19:29 2004 by FiveFootNine]

No, no, no, no, no.

But having said that, the little heart looks quite pretty. I thought there was going to be some horrendous barbell through the eyeball or something.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Funny..i was on da train and i was lookin onto someone elses newpaper cause i was intruiged by this jewellery ouch!!!

Het oogziekenhuis in Rotterdam

It's one of the most profound hospitals on eye-surgery in Holland...

But I would never do it

I so want this.

Natsume said:

I saw what they do; EW!
I saw what it looked like; EW again!
And then I saw the two women who had the first thingies in their eyeballs; tacky.
Dón't go there, Pam.

Allthough maybe a looks cool during concerts.

gooeythehamster said:

Nah, I would never do it. My eyes are fucked up enough as is.

goo!

Natsume said:

Hehehe.
I love the way I get people to admit they love goo.

Wuv ya back, hun.

gooeythehamster said:

Who can resist a hamster?

Natsume said:

Richard Gere never could...

This is the stupidest thing i have ever heard.

Heh. I also saw an ad recently for tooth jewelry. They're little stars or hearts or whatever that are glued on to the tooth.

I think it's kinda fun. I like bodymod. Gonna have to be more variety of design before I'd do it, though.

JasmineFire said:

WHAT

RICHARD GERE JOKE?

I am LMAO just at the title of this thread.

Michael Kooren / Reuters http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685961/


Check out the eye...



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[This message was edited Thu Apr 8 16:04:16 2004 by VinaBlue]

Im getting my Temporal Lobe pierced.

bananacologne said:

seriously though this is a bad idea, BAD! the conjuntiva is not meant to have foreign objects implanted in it, no matter how sterile the conditions. watch for the follow-up medical problems that will develop. hope those doctors have mucho insurance. ..

VinaBlue said:

that looks painful and dumb.

umm...kinda pointless...and not exactly attractive

ew.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

co-


(Michael Kooren / Reuters http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4685961/)

JasmineFire said:

Yet belly button and tongue piercings are acceptable and look how many people have had serious problems with those.

VinaBlue said:

I suppose that pic was taken quite soon after the procedure. I reckon it'll heal. Still, why would anyone do that?!

I don't think it's ugly, but then again, I'm half blind

I don't think I'd do that to my eye, never know what might happen later. No complications are expected, well, surprises do happen.

J0eyC0c0 said:

you can get your belly button and tongue pierced and not go blind. like i said, eye jewelry looks pianful and dumb.

JasmineFire said:

Maybe you won't get blind with belly button or tongue piercing, but I'm sure those two have their own complications too.

Leave your body as it is, natural is beautiful.

Heavenly said:

yeah, there are complications but they're not as serious as losing your vision. sorry, i just value my vision.