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Inventor’s Laser Can Turn Brown Eyes Blue

By on November 5, 2012 in Featured / Inventions / News

If you have brown eyes, but you’ve always wanted them to be blue, an inventor has a new device that can make that change permanent.

Gregg Homer, founder of Stroma Medical in Laguna Beach, Calif., told the Daily News he’s already tested the irreversible cosmetic treatment on about 12 volunteers in Mexico, safely removing small patches of brown pigment from at least one eye in each subject.

The dramatic switch is possible because all brown-eyed people have blue-looking orbs under the layer of dark pigment that covers each iris, he said.

“People like the depth of a light eye,” he told The News, citing a company poll of 2,000 patients that found 17.5% would seek the treatment. “Eyes are the windows to the soul, and a light eye is like an open window.”

His plan is to test the full procedure in both eyes of voluntary subjects in about a year, he said. Stroma then hopes to market the treatment outside the U.S. — probably Mexico, Canada and Europe.

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  • Christine Timmerman

    This is an incredible idea. It seems nowadays we can completely transform everything about our bodies except eye color. While colored contacts exist they do not work as well for darker-colored eyes. If testing goes well and this idea really works our one last hold to a physicality that can’t be changed will be lost.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1628084941 Jeremy Ponniah

    I agree, it’s a very exciting development and will be a great for ensuring blue eyes don’t die out- which is where they are currently heading. Colored contacts are nice but actually changing your eye color would be amazing.

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