Laser Treatment Could Turn Brown Eyes Blue
Laser Treatment Could Turn Brown Eyes Blue – The idea to use lasers to turn brown eyes blue was born in an unlikely place: a dermatologist’s office.
Driving home after having some pigment spots removed from his skin by laser, Gregg Homer wondered what would happen if you used a similar laser on the eyes. An inventor who had a Ph.D in biology, Homer did a little research and quickly realized the potential of the idea: a study in the 1980’s had shown that underneath every brown eye is a blue eye. And that brown layer, Homer discovered, appeared to be superficial enough that it could, theoretically, be removed.
“I went back to my dermatologist and said, I’ve got a question for you,” Homer told Discovery News. “What would happen if you used this on an iris?”
The dermatologist eventually joined his board of investigators, and now, almost 20 years later, the surgery is going through human testing in Costa Rica via Homer’s company called Stroma.
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