00:00Would you get a tattoo on your eyeball just for different colored eyes?
00:02All across social media, people are getting surgery and eye injections
00:06to achieve the eye color of their dreams, permanently.
00:09But depending on which doctors you ask,
00:11this procedure is either a medical miracle or a potential nightmare.
00:14Eye color changing surgeries are trending right now.
00:18I saw it all over TikTok.
00:19She's shaking her head.
00:20But there's a warning for anyone looking into this, Dr. Zhen.
00:24Don't!
00:25The brand new procedure called keratopigmentation, or KTP,
00:29lets patients customize their desired eye color through essentially a tattoo on the cornea.
00:34An ophthalmologist uses a laser to create tiny holes,
00:37which are then injected with the colored pigment.
00:39It sounds dangerous and painful,
00:40but it's being advertised as an easy surgery that only takes 20 minutes.
00:44Laser keratopigmentation is a technique to permanently change the color of your eyes.
00:50Also known as corneal tattooing, it makes a small incision in the eyeball.
00:55Then it changes the pigmentation of the eye.
00:57With a simple search, you can find the handful of licensed doctors
01:01currently offering it in the United States.
01:03Patients are jumping on social media to share
01:05the dramatic results of their eye color transformation.
01:08Yeah, look at that.
01:11They never seen a man look like this.
01:13If you think the KTP procedure sounds frightening, you're not alone.
01:16Both the FDA and the American Board of Ophthalmologists
01:19have not approved KTP surgery and are urging the public to reconsider.
01:23Risks like infection, dye leakage, and vision loss
01:26are the major concerns of other eye doctors who refuse to participate in the trend.
01:31Another huge risk behind this unregulated surgery is a high likelihood of mistakes.
01:36Just ask TikTok user Jasmine Hill.
01:39Due to a translation mix-up, her doctor ordered and injected
01:42an icy blue color to her eyes instead of the reddish brown color she had chosen.
01:46She's since gone viral for her posts where she shares the surreal reality
01:50of no longer recognizing herself in the mirror.
01:53I don't know if this is gray.
01:55I don't know if this is green.
01:57I was in there crying.
01:59Since the KTP procedure has only been available since 2013,
02:03there's no knowing of the long-term risks or if the new eye color will even last.
02:08At least one longtime KTP patient came forward with her horror story
02:12of how she nearly lost her vision 10 years after her eye color change surgery.
02:16And I still have two more surgeries to undergo once I'm healed from this.
02:22I'm still not healed.
02:23Despite the dozens of happy customers showing off their icy new eyes on the internet,
02:28there are just as many doctors using their social media platforms
02:31to warn against any non-FDA approved eye surgeries.
02:35Do not, and I repeat, do not get this surgery done.
02:40So, though you may want to change your eye color as quickly as you can change your outfit,
02:43colored contacts are still the safest and least extreme way
02:48to get the eye color you've dreamed of.
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