Sunday, November 24, 2013

Eye Bling: Glittering Heart Implanted in Eye

"Now that tattoos are mainstream and piercings passé, America's youth have taken to some extreme measures to make a statement. And for Lucy Luckayanko of New York City, that statement comes in the form of a permanent, platinum twinkle implanted smack-dab onto her eyeball," says Gizmodo. "Apparently, Lucy will be the first in NYC to get the Safesight jewelry implant, which involves inserting the jewelry between the sclera (the white part of the eye) and the conjunctiva (the clear, outer membrane). Europe and Los Angeles, though, have already seen hundreds of the surgeries done. And while the $3,000 implant has yet to be FDA approved, Dr. Emil Chynn, the medical director of Park Avenue Laser Vision and surgeon to Luckayanko, assures My FoxNy that it's 'actually pretty safe.'" Read more.

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