Gregg Homer, of the Stroma Medical company, based in California (USA), has developed a new laser technology that allows changing the color of the eyes from browns to blues . The new technology, in which Homer has been working for a decade, is called Lumineyes and has one drawback: once applied, there is no going back.

People with brown eyes have a pigment called melanin on the front of the iris. In people with blue eyes, this pigment is absent in the front part of the eye. Hence, Gregg Homer's treatment is based on removing melanin from the front of the iris using lasers . The procedure is completed in a record time of 20 seconds, although the blue color takes a few weeks to appear.

While there have been few clinical trials in humans so far, Homer predicts that treatment could be available in three years in the United States, and in only a year and a half in other countries. Strome Medical has already conducted several surveys that show that at least 17% of people with dark eyes would change their color if the method is safe, effective and definitive.

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