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I had no idea this was a thing, did anyone know that this was a thing?
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The decision to walk into a tattoo parlor and have someone needle-inject ink into the whites of your eyeballs is a bad one. That's according to ophthalmologists, a person who has had the procedure and even the guy who says he invented it.
Sclera tattooing, also known as tattooing the whites of the eyes, is so ill-advised that ophthalmologist Philip Rizzuto, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is disappointed he even has to talk about it.
"I would strongly recommend against it," he said. The practice, he warned, can cause people to go blind and even lose their eye...........
Like a tattoo on your arm or hand, sclera tattoos involve placing ink within the skin, said Rizzuto, a clinical professor of surgery at Brown University. He explained the ink is injected into a very thin layer of skin called the conjunctiva, which covers the whites of our eyes. The result is the whites of our eyes change colors. It's as permanent as any tattoo.
Rizzuto said the danger lies in the inexperience of the hand holding the needle.
"Putting any kind of needle on the eye is very dangerous," he said. "We do that all the time, but we're trained for 12 to 18 years how to go about treating the eye."..............
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The decision to walk into a tattoo parlor and have someone needle-inject ink into the whites of your eyeballs is a bad one. That's according to ophthalmologists, a person who has had the procedure and even the guy who says he invented it.
Sclera tattooing, also known as tattooing the whites of the eyes, is so ill-advised that ophthalmologist Philip Rizzuto, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is disappointed he even has to talk about it.
"I would strongly recommend against it," he said. The practice, he warned, can cause people to go blind and even lose their eye...........
Like a tattoo on your arm or hand, sclera tattoos involve placing ink within the skin, said Rizzuto, a clinical professor of surgery at Brown University. He explained the ink is injected into a very thin layer of skin called the conjunctiva, which covers the whites of our eyes. The result is the whites of our eyes change colors. It's as permanent as any tattoo.
Rizzuto said the danger lies in the inexperience of the hand holding the needle.
"Putting any kind of needle on the eye is very dangerous," he said. "We do that all the time, but we're trained for 12 to 18 years how to go about treating the eye."..............
Don't tattoo your eyeball. Just don't do it.
A 24-year-old woman from Ontario needs to have purple ink from her eye surgically removed after she received a scleral tattoo.
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