eye's tattoo

Human eye there is a dark circle (pupil) and white light (the cornea) at the outside. Now with the tattoo technique, the cornea white light can be modified variety of colors and painting. But tattooing the cornea of ​​the eye is very large risks can be up to vision loss.

With a tattoo of an eye, the cornea that white light can change color to blue, red (such as eye vampire) or painted with a different picture began to flower until the liver. Eye tattoo done a lot of people start since 2007.

Eye tattoo is actually not new. Some doctors have used tattooing the cornea or eyeball tattoo to cover scar the cornea, but now these defects can easily be covered by using contact lenses.

But healthy people who use the eye as the tattoo trend, is actually very dangerous. In 2007, the online magazine BMEzine.com began recording there are three people who started doing tattoos eye by changing the eyes to blue.

To tattoo the eyes, the tattoo artists usually use two different procedures. First, by using a traditional needle coated with ink. With this traditional needle ink only placed on the cornea (the outermost layer of nodes and of the eyeball).

The ink will be used to change the color of the eyes of the white into the desired color or to create certain shapes. Secondly, if the ink would not stick, tattooist (tattoo expert) will switch to using a syringe to inject ink into the cornea.

Some doctors also say that the tattoo of an eye can cause serious allergic reactions in the future. Pigment or ink used can cause inflammation, and even lead to blindness.

People who are very terlatik with eye tattoo should understand that the eye is a very delicate organ. Eye tattoo is very risky and should be avoided. Particular organism can get into your eyes and cause acute inflammation of the eye’s internal layers.

But Dr. Belmont said there is a specific medical reason that makes the eye surgeon should perform eye tattoo. If a person has suffered eye trauma due to burns, lasersasi or bruises, the resulting scar can be covered with tattoos.

Tattoos eyes can also help people with leucoma (an opaque stain in the eyes usually white) to return to a normal eye appearance again.

“I would certainly recommend corneal tattooing in patients with corneal scars, but I do not recommend this procedure is done solely for the purpose of body jewelry because of adverse events significantly impaired vision-threatening,” said Belmont.

Because if you want to get a tattoo of the cornea to change the whites of the eyes become red or blue, you should get about 40 injections in the eye.

Tattoo

The decision to get a tattoo should have well-thought, because the art form is still very difficult to remove. So what happens if the tattoo has been stuck for years in the body?

Tattooing is one form of art that will stick in the body of a person’s lifetime. A new study reveals for the first time that the shape of the tattoo is going to get worse with age a person.

Ian Eames, a fluid mechanics researcher from University College London have created a mathematical model that can be used to predict the movement of tattoo ink particles from time to time and give a better idea of ​​designing.

“Tattoos are very popular around the world, this study gives an idea of ​​how it chooses the image can look good for several years,” Eames said, as quoted from ABC.net.au, Friday (29/04/2011).

“This type of skin, age, size of the tattoo, sun exposure and type of ink used can affect how the tattoo spreads from time to time,” said Eames.

Eames said that after years of sticking to the body then the tattoo will:

1. Tattoo inks are generally made of a suspension of particles that dissolve in water such as mercury, cadmium, lead and iron are injected under the skin to form an image by using a needle. With time and age, then the particles of the ink will spread.

2. Small detail of the tattoo will disappear first, then detail the thicker began to be affected.

Although originally a tattoo looks good and understandable meaning, but after 15 years may be images that look will be different and may be more difficult to understand its meaning.

3. After years of color can fade or emerging fault lines of the drawing, and drawing tattoo will look weird when entering the age of an 50-year result was the appearance of wrinkles in the skin.

4. Other side effects that may arise from tattooing is a risk of infection, such as the use of unsterilized needles or content of harmful substances from the ink used