heres one in your EYE?


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e=4&u=/nm/20040407/od_nm/odd_eye_dc

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.

fucked up.... man i never ... come on its the eye, crazy

i heard about this on NPR last night
ridiculous
ps: her eyeball is gross

i have a pic i took of a kid but it's not uploaded..damn...i'll see if i have it on my laptop...

uhhhhhhh thats nasty

Someone get me a flathead screwdriver and some gauze pads

you could probably make a lot of money doing it joe..... you think about changing trades

my friend sent me an article about that a couple days ago. i hope some idiot goes blind for doing something this stupid.

it seems like you could feel it, like when you get something in your eye. it would drive me fucking crazy.

MyDeadDoll said:

i cant stand the thought of an eye lash in me eye....... this is gross... god i feel like a girl...... eyes and shit going into eys is fucking sick.... no good and can not be benificail to you or others......

I learned about this in school today. People are retarded.

transdermal and subdermal implants cause tissue and bone damage over years. id give this a year at the most before eye probleme will occur.

I'd add this to my list of phobias.
anonymous's is mostlikely correct there.

it's like wearing hard contacts for a long time... some people develop scar tissue in their eyes... so the same thing's gotta go for this. i'd rather stick to those funky tooth gems... getting food stuck in your tooth jewelry is way better then having a fucked up eye ball.

I'm with you on that one.

people just have to stop fucking with their bodies it's getting insane

it's like that fugazi song about not being what you own. People seem to love defining themselves based on their possessions. What a crock.

i have a bar in my neck. i love "fucking with my body"
but this is just stupid. its not like anybody could ever see it anyway.

i wanted to get two barbells in the back of my neck, but i'd be afraid of tugging them or something. it's a sexy look.

what i really want to do is a surface piercing on my arm. since i've got an angel on my shoulder, i wanna put a little barbell through the tip of her wing. or if i ever get the "evil" angel on the other shoulder, i would do a surface CBR for the halo

This is my neck right after i got it done

oooh! it's in the front! nice. does it ever bother you?

no not really. i got it caught on my sweatshirt once when taking it off and the ball popped off. luckily i was at band pratice and my drummer is a piercer and did it for me, so i just went back and he put the ball back on. otherwise its not even noticable, unless you feel it.

did it hurt to get done?

i touched it

sure.
but i mean it's a piercing, they always hurt. its not like i was expecting it to tickle. it wasn't bad or anything, the clamp hurt more than the needle.
it hurt less than my two lip rings, but more than my labret. pain is relative to your mental state though.