Woman Has Heart-Shaped Twinkle Surgically Implanted on Her Eyeball

Now that tattoos are boilerplate and piercings passé, America's adolescence accept taken to some acute measures to accomplish a statement. And for Lucy Luckayanko of New York City, that account comes in the anatomy of a permanent, platinum blink built-in absolutely assimilate her eyeball.

Apparently, Lucy will be the aboriginal in NYC to get the Safesight adornment implant, which involves inserting the adornment amid the sclera (the white allotment of the eye) and the conjunctiva (the clear, alien membrane). Europe and Los Angeles, though, accept already apparent hundreds of the surgeries done. And while the $3,000 implant has yet to be FDA approved, Dr. Emil Chynn, the medical administrator of Park Avenue Laser Vision and surgeon to Luckayanko, assures My FoxNy that it's "actually appealing safe." At the actual least, she'll still be able to see probably, Dr. Chynn explains:

It's a actual attenuate section of platinum that's advised for admittance on the top of the eye, it's not in the eye so there's no accident of amaurosis or annihilation at all. She could accept a little bit of bounded bleeding. That could go abroad in a brace canicule or brace weeks. She could accept an infection but we'll anticipate that with antibiotics.

In fact, Dr. Chynn sees the anaplasty as just addition way to "advance the science of opthalmology." Unfortunately, the American Academy of Opthalmology (AAO) has yet to accept that accurate memo. In a account to Fox 5, the AAO wrote that there isn't "sufficient affirmation to abutment the assurance or ameliorative amount of this procedure" and that humans should "avoid agreement in the eye any foregin physique or actual that is not accustomed by the FDA."

Woman Has Heart-Shaped Twinkle Surgically Implanted on Her Eyeball

Lucy, audacious by a agglomeration of wet absolute scientists, went through with the action and couldn't be happier. Describing her friends' reactions, Lucy acclaimed that "50 percent of [her] accompany are like oh my god it's air-conditioned cool." And if that isn't account a few weeks of eye bleeding, we don't apperceive what is. [MyFoxNY via Daily Mail]