Cosplay: Intraocular Implant for Serious Cosplayers...

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Intraocular lenses, commonly called IOLs, may be one of the most important ophthalmic developments in the past 30 years. These tiny prescription lenses are placed inside the eye during cataract or Clear Lens Extraction And Replacement surgery (CLEAR), replacing the eye’s natural lens (called a cataract when it becomes clouded). Prior to the development of IOLs, cataract patients were forced to wear thick “coke bottle” glasses or contact lenses after the surgery. They were essentially blind without their glasses.



Today, patients receiving IOLs often enjoy the best vision of their lives. Thanks to sophisticated formulas used to calculate the corrective prescription power of the lens, the IOL not only replaces the need for thick glasses, it can also correct the eye’s existing refractive error.

There are two basic types of IOLs: foldable and hard. Foldable lenses are made of silicone or acrylic and can be rolled up and placed inside a tiny tube. The tube is inserted through a very small incision – less than 2.5 mm in length. Once inside the eye, the IOL gently unfolds. Hard plastic lenses are appropriate in certain circumstances determined by the surgeon. Since they cannot be folded, they are placed through a slightly larger incision.



New developments…

Lens implant surgery has become so advanced in recent years that its benefits have been extended to healthy eyes. Phakic lenses (implanting an IOL without removing the eye’s natural lens) are an option that will soon become available to young patients who may not be candidates for other refractive surgery options. And CLEAR, a procedure available today, gives patients over the age of 40 the option to improve their vision without glasses and avoid cataract surgery later in life.


Check this site too:

http://www.newcoloriris.com/

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And here's an interesting conversation on this subject:



Q: Has anyone had the implant surgery to change their eye color?

I am seriously considering having this surgery, but I am apprehensive since it is not done in this country. If you have had this done, would you please provide me with details about the facility in Panama, lodging arrangements, and any post operative discomfort or side effects. I would also love to see before and after pictures! I have yet to see anyone who chose the amber lens.





A: The eye has basically 3 layers. It starts out as an outpocketing from the brain. This forms a ball that grows and approaches the 'skin'. When this gets close, there's a collapsing of the cup into two layers that form the retina and the pigment epithelium.

This double layer'd cup becomes the retina, but the front part becomes the back of the iris, the colored part of the eye. Part of those cells become the dilator muscle of the iris and respond to darkness to dilate the pupil and allow more light, and the other layer becomes very 'dark' to stop light from going through the iris except for the hole in the middle, the pupil.

The surface of the iris comes from a vascular layer, and comes from a mesodermal layer (not neuroectoderm like the retina). The iris has lots of vessels in the back part of the eye. It lays against the white layer, and the retina lays on top of it. The combination of the iris in front, and the choroid in the back form a layer called the UVEAL tract. If one were to remove the outer layer of the eye this layer would look like a dark grape (uva in spanish...sort of get the drift?)

This layer is VERY sensitive to changes in your immune system.

People with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondiylitis, Psoriatic arthritis, Sarcoidosis, Juvenile Arthritis, Certain gastrointestinal problems involving inflammation such as Chron's disease, or urinary tract diseases....and on and on and on...

The reason for all this 'stuff', is that if you "instrument" your iris to change the color, are you opening an immunological can of worms that will condemn you to years of anti-inflammatory drops, cataracts, loss of vision from chronic inflammation, secondary glaucoma from the inflammation and/or the anti-inflammatory drops used to control the inflammation? The ANSWER is

YES!


These are NOT HAPPY PEOPLE! (hint)

The 'new' iris will not have any neurological connections. It will not respond to light or stress the way the old (came with the body one) one does.

If you are getting an implant, is this a lens implant? If it's an iris implant or something that sits in front of the iris, whatever that implant is made of IS GOING TO DAMAGE THE INSIDE OF THE CORNEA so that the little cells, the endothelial cells in their one layer architechture, will eventually not be able to sufficiently keep your cornea dry, and you'll end up having to use drops to lower the pressure in your eye, as well as dehydrate your eye with high %salt solutions, and that's before the first TRANSPLANT to save your vision.

Is all this really......er....necessary?

Have you really been told the risks? There are a LOT of risks to this if you are doing this because you want blue eyes.

And having blue eyes does NOT make you a nice person. Does NOT make you kind, or attractive, or gentle, or generous or a nice mother or....and once you know 'him' and he loves you, eye color won't matter at ALL!

But daily drops 4-6 times a day, oral medications that make you sick (not so romantic) are just not a good idea.

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Wow Pare bigat!

Mas-mu-prefer ko contacts na lang para instant change. ahehehehehe
And Mahal man na ang implant.

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yup..mahal2x pud ni... naa man taod IOL diri cebu