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Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery 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 piece of specially developed jewellery -- 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 (270 to 540 pounds).

"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 jewellery 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 jewellery 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.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ASUGHUGHTUNHIOHN#P*(UNHJ{OHIJOHI{#$@OJH:L:IOHDOWIE{OUW&*(+JU)IHJNE)W

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bullmarketer.com/graphics/people/stll_uncle_sam_dollar_signs.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i just...i mean...i have...nothing.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, GOOD GOD PEOPLE C'MON!!!!!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

crazy Dutch, always with the ocubling

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I blame all the skunk.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

just what i wanted in my eye: a heart-shaped lumniescent tumor

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yucky.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm so cute, I have a heart IMPLANTED IN MY EYE!"

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't wait until they can insert a live humming bird into your ankle

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a gerbil in your ass.

Oh.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it would be better if the heart had a message on it, you know, like those sweets

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

is the gerbil on the ass tattoo popular with the frat girl set these days? living in a college town, you'd think i'd know...

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(he says, wistfully)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

From the clinic's Web site:

It is of all times for people to wear jewelry. Earrings, make-up and more recently tattoos and piercings are accepted forms of body cosmetics. Surprisingly, no jewelry is available for the organ that is most important in social interactions, the eye.

Is it wrong to expect better grammar out of people who scratch and slice and generally futz around people's eyeballs?

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, when I was 16 I absolutely, undeniably, would have done this. Thank you, Whoever, for making me 28 and not Dutch.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

eyeball jewelry + mexican woman performing her own c-section + having only a cigarette for lunch = dry heaving

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

now you CAN turn your face into a heart. sort of.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

:-0

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

mexican woman performing her own c-section?

fuck.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what other designs do you suppose they do? lightning bolt? serpent? skull n' bones? silhouette of Greg Evigan's head?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Nike swoosh.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

golden arches

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mexican woman gives herself C-section, doctors report

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

hey i'm EATING HERE

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll bet I could get one for free if it said Golden Palace.com. I might have to arrange to get on television and ogle in front of cameras, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I WAS. Fuck.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You click on a link entitled "Mexican woman gives herself C-section, doctors report" and you're surprised it puts you off your food?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That chick is hardcore.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i didnt click on the link

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

All what-the-fuck stories from now on must include photographs of tasty fresh oranges.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can just about stand girls with tatoos but disfiguring your EYE? GRRR!! It makes me SO MAD!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant wait until they're all sitting in starbucks three years now and their eyes explode into their lattes

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I want one with a little red LED that goes back and forth so I can be a Cylon.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean "pretend to be a Cylon."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean "football player."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

or one with a skull or a dead rat. that would be grim and necro.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess it's okay to drink alcohol while you're pregnant so long as junior is gonna be popped out soon.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I could get a comedy mask on one eye and a tragedy mask on the other, and wink mood-appropriately.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would you ever want to have something like that in your eye?

Can you get one in both eyes?

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Make it a Broadband VideophoneEye so the real cheating might begin.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the cut of your jib

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want one with a terahertz source and detector, and stereo video recorders with zoom.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

well, the zoom probaly wouldn't fit, but the other stuff will, and if they could attach it some how to the back of the eye where it connects to the braina nd insert a muscle to switch between modes. I could see through walls and record all I see!!!

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm gonna get a image of calvin pissing on a pair of glasses

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Chank Diesel to thread

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 April 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

no way, Momus to thread. The truth is out!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 8 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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