A new aesthetic trend has taken the attention of New Yorkers as a woman had a platinum heart implanted on her eyeballs, saying that she uses it as a “conversation maker.”
Lucy Luckayanko had her eye implant done at New York city’s Park Avenue Laser Vision. She said in an interview with Fox News, "It's going to be a conversation maker. I will be able to tell people. It will be unique. It will be sort of my unique factor.”
This aesthetic procedure is becoming a trend in several states such as Los Angeles but this is the first time that it was done in New York. The procedure involves placing a piece of platinum jewelry in the eye.
Park Avenue Laser Vision medical director Dr. Emil Chynn said that this eye implant procedure is reasonably harmless.
He elaborated, "It's a very thin piece of platinum that's designed for insertion on the top of the eye. It's not in the eye, so there's no risk of blindness or anything at all. She could have a little bit of local bleeding. That could go away in a couple days or couple weeks. She could have an infection, but we'll prevent that with antibiotics."
Health authorities do not believe that the new procedure is safe. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do not approve of eye jewelry. The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) on the other hand issued a warning regarding the dangerous side of having such a aesthetic eye implant.
According to the AAO, there is no "sufficient evidence to support the safety or therapeutic value of this procedure." They also asked the public to "avoid placing in the eye any foreign body or material that is not approved by the FDA."
The reactions of Luckayanko’s friends to her newly implanted eye jewelry was mixed. Some of them thought she was crazy while some were impressed and thought it was rather fashionable.