Laser treatment claims to turn brown eyes blue A clinic in California is testing a laser procedure that eliminates pigment in the patient's eyes, turning them blue. by Michelle Starr
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Ever been stymied in a desire to bat your baby blues by the fact that your eyes aren't actually blue? An experimental new procedure could see you permanently change your peepers' hue. StrĹ?ma Medical Corporation, based out of Laguna Beach, California, claims to have invented a new laser eye surgery technique that eliminates the pigment from the patient's eye. Here's how it works. In darker, warm eye colours -- browns and black -- the upper layer of the iris (the stroma) contains high concentrations of melanin, the natural pigment that effects skin colour, hair colour and eye colour. RELATED ARTICLES Bionic eye: 3D printing merges contact lens and
However, in blue and green eyes, the stroma contains very little melanin -- the blue colour is caused by a light-scattering effect called the Tyndall effect, similar to the Rayleigh scattering converted by Web2PDFConvert.com