It takes only 20 minutes to change your eye color forever by way of a novel procedure called keratopigmentation that’s quickly gaining steam in the U.S. Here, we examine the growing trend including the physical and psychological risks of having a doctor dig tunnels into your corneas.
Keratopigmentation, a procedure to permanently change one’s eye color that has been performed for at least a decade in Europe, is gaining popularity in the United States. Only a handful of clinics in the US currently offer the procedure, with half of them located in the New York City metropolitan area. Kerato sits on the 8th floor of a midtown office building, and is bustling by 10am with patients who have paid for a new eye color, and others getting some Lasik.
Others in the greater ophthalmology community pointed to the procedure’s permanence as reason enough for concern. “If a patient doesn’t like the result, can the pigment in the corneal tunnel be washed out?” wondered Kevin Miller, MD, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “In other words, is it reversible?” It isn’t. One day, it may become possible to remove the pigment, but there is no world in which corneal tunnels can be undug.
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