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The of an American medical company he has developed a technique to turn brown eyes blue. He says a special treatment can remove the brown pigment from brown eyes and that will a blue colour. Doctor Gregg Homer says this is possible because all brown-eyed people have the pigments to have blue eyes. “Anyone who has brown eyes has blue eyes …. It’s covered by a thin of pigment. We’ve developed a laser that can be fired through the clear part of the eye, the cornea, and it disrupts the pigment…and it it from the eye.” The cost of this new cosmetic surgery will be around $5,000. The procedure is and takes just 20 seconds in the doctor’s chair and then two to four weeks for the colour change to take .

Doctor Homer said for the treatment is already very high. He recently on a Los Angeles TV show and got 3,000 . People will have to wait as the technique has to be approved by the U.S. medical authorities, although it could be within 18 months in Europe. Homer said: “I think brown eyes are just as as blue eyes, but I started doing this because I thought it was a technology and I thought it would be nice for people to have a . I’m glad other people think it’s , too.” Homer does have his critics. One, Dr. Elmer Tu, spokesman for the American College of Ophthalmology, told America’s CBS News that the released brown pigment could potentially a person. He recommended blue contact lenses .

 

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