Knowing the Extreme Tattoo Corneas

You have a tattoo on his arm, calf, or your back?. If you answer "yes", you do not immediately elated first because it was unusual because tattoos are one of this type of tattoos are perhaps the most extreme you may have heard, that is tattooed on the cornea of ​​the eye!. Wow, sounds extreme right?

Eyeball tattoo is done by injecting dye into the top layer of the eye. There was extreme indeed because the whites of the eye or the cornea will be field painted.

It takes guts to try it. In addition to dare withstand the pain of the puncture needle in the eye, also must be ready to face the health risks that endanger the eyes.

Only an ophthalmologist who can perform these techniques. An unusual tattoo artists would not dare. "I'm not a doctor. I would not do for anyone. I do not want to play around with things that could pose a risk of vision, "says Al, a tattoo artist, as quoted by the Times of India.

Himanshu Mehta, ophthalmologist says, eyeball tattoos can be done after a study for one year. Almost all the doctors want to do it only if it is completely safe and pose no risk of long-term cancer.

Mehta said, eyeball tattoos should be a professional in his field. The failure of this technique can lead to bleeding or infection in the eye and increase the risk of blindness. Eyeball tattoos can also damage blood vessels and perforation. "Cornea, smooth and transparent layer on top of the retina, is the window to see the world," he said.

However, there are medical benefits of this tattoo. In addition to changing the color of the cornea, the tattoo is also useful to cover defects such as corneal scarring and leucoma, opaque light scar on the cornea. Engineering of this tattoo done to make the eyes look normal, not for aesthetic purposes.

The first attempt eyeball tattoo is a Canadian citizen, Pauly Unstoppable. A total of 40 injections of blue ink pierced through the bottom of the cornea to change the white color of her eyes to blue indigo.

In addition to eye tattoo, techniques other extreme is piercing eyes. A wide selection of piercing a heart-shaped, crescent moon, animals or small pieces of diamonds measuring approximately 3.5 mm, will be placed in the eye conjunctiva, a transparent layer that covers the outer surface of the eye. The entire process of piercing eyes not more than 15 minutes.