Dr. Lana Del Porto
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Podcast Appearances
It can also be used to clean up the lens capsule after cataract surgery because that can get opacifications on it and various other things.
Now, they started using laser depigmentation for certain things on the iris.
So let's say you've got a big freckle on your iris.
You've got blue iris with a big freckle.
brown freckle, you don't like it.
So they started depigmenting those and then realized, oh, hang on, this can be expanded to changing people's eye color.
So you're shooting off the pigment.
So it takes a lot of sessions though.
So you do four treatments in a row, four days in a row, then you have a few months off and then repeat and then repeat.
You've got to keep going until you get to the desired eye color.
So if you've got really dark brown eyes, they're probably not going to go blue.
But the thing is, you're shooting off a lot of pigment.
You can't shoot it all off at once, right?
Because then you have an eye full of pigment.
Your pressure will be sky high.