# OK, Line Up To Be The First In Your Neighborhood To Get Eyeball Studs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913 "2014-01-05T00:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/1 "2014-01-05T00:05:42Z")
Yes, you can be on the cutting edge of fashion and get a cute little metal stud implanted into your eyeball! Here is the [lovely link](http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG10467693/Eyeball-studs-the-new-face-jewellery.html). I would probably avoid having it done by a guy in a van parked in the Walmart parking lot though. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/2 "2014-01-05T00:09:24Z")
I think eyeball surgery is gross anyway, so I’m not even going to look at the link. This is almost as disturbing as people who have cosmetic amputations (and yes, they do exist). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/3 "2014-01-05T01:51:28Z")
Too stupid - no thanks, I’d prefer not to have a foreign body implanted in my eyeball and risk infection and blindness for no good reason. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/4 "2014-01-05T02:07:55Z")
Having previously worked in ophthalmology, I googled the doctor cited - first, it appears to be a Dr. Emil Chinn (not Emily), and not that this necessarily means anything, but the Yelp reviews for his practice are very dodgy-sounding. Dude seems to be very much a giant self-promoter and ego, and patients allege things like discounts if you upload your surgery video to YouTube (tagged with his practice’s name), hard sells, etc. Plus his firm’s website actually has a discussion of his search for a wife and a link to where you can apply or suggest a candidate! :eek: But here’s where I really have an issue, from [the discussion of the jewelry on his site](http://www.parkavenuesafesight.com/safesight/safesight-jewelry/): “The chance of visual loss from this procedure is 0. There is absolutely no risk of going blind, or any visual loss.” No. Just no. No, no, no. I suspect what he means is that the actual process of implanting the jewelry will not directly or immediately cause visual loss, which is true enough (barring a terrible accident like puncturing the globe, which is still a chance), but an infection afterwards could lead to keratitis, which could quickly begin to damage the outside of the eye, that kind of thing. It’s a terrible way to describe the procedure risks, and frankly, the fact that he even does something like this (I did check his CV, and he has an impressive training background, but that doesn’t predict his judgement now) would lead me to stay far, far away from even standard procedures there. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/5 "2014-01-05T20:21:03Z")
:eek:The incision is done with _ **SCISSORS???** _ ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/6 "2014-01-05T22:34:11Z")
Whatever happened to the good old days when merely getting a nose piercing was rebellious? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/7 "2014-01-05T22:37:21Z")
Holy shit, I haven’t reached 35 and I’m already wondering what’s happened to kids these days. _whole body shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/8 "2014-01-06T01:03:16Z")
What’s left to pierce after this? Eardrums Brain Chest cavity Arteries Spinal column ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/9 "2014-01-06T07:33:44Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > What’s left to pierce after this? > > Eardrums > Brain > Chest cavity > Arteries > Spinal column The hyoo-o-uh-kuh! (“The Hook” in the dialect of the fictional island-nation of San Lorenzo.) Torture/execution device described by Vonnegut in _Cat’s Cradle_ – Like a giant fish-hook, they impale you on it through your belly and out your back like a giant worm, and there they leave you to die, one sorry law-breaker. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/10 "2014-01-06T13:30:58Z")
Can I run a chain from my eyeball stud to my penis stud? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/11 "2014-01-06T13:38:41Z")
What is next? Branding? Scarification? This is crazy ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/12 "2014-01-06T13:39:34Z")
Branding and scarification are old-school. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/13 "2014-01-06T14:55:16Z")
[Hell. No.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeScream) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/14 "2014-01-06T16:26:31Z")
Eh, I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t want anyone I knew to do it, and I would think less of someone who did get it done. However, in the grand scheme we accept all sorts of body-mods as mundane and normal - circumcision, teeth braces, boob jobs, face-lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, nose jobs - what’s one more body part? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/15 "2014-01-06T18:37:03Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Eh, I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t want anyone I knew to do it, and I would think less of someone who did get it done. > > However, in the grand scheme we accept all sorts of body-mods as mundane and normal - circumcision, teeth braces, boob jobs, face-lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, nose jobs - what’s one more body part? That’s true enough, and there is the possibility of some serious and permanent consequences for most of those, too. A tattoo is permanent, and the removal is (apparently) extremely painful and comes with the risk of infection and eventually death if things go particularly wrong; any surgery carries a risk of death; why not risk your vision, too? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/16 "2014-01-06T21:32:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > That’s true enough, and there is the possibility of some serious and permanent consequences for most of those, too. A tattoo is permanent, and the removal is (apparently) extremely painful and comes with the risk of infection and eventually death if things go particularly wrong; any surgery carries a risk of death; why not risk your vision, too? I dunno, I just can’t see it… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/17 "2014-01-07T00:45:42Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I dunno, I just can’t see it… Well, not after the infection sets in and you lose your eyeball…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/18 "2014-01-07T11:50:37Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > What is next? Branding? Scarification? This is crazy Fraternity branding > **[Campus Circle - Branding](https://www.campuscircle.com/review.cfm?r=1714)** > > Read about Branding at Campus Circle. Sign up for free movie screenings in your area. Scarification > **[Scarification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarification)** > > Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can take roughly 6–12 months to heal. In the process of body scarification, scars are purposely formed by cutting or branding the skin by various methods (sometimes using further sequential aggravating wound-healing methods at timed intervals, like irritation). Scarification is sometimes called cicatriz... [http://thrivestudios.ca/gallery.htm?bShowGallery=1&ww\_galleryID=81B30598-F530-CDA1-606E-92D86473867F](http://thrivestudios.ca/gallery.htm?bShowGallery=1&ww_galleryID=81B30598-F530-CDA1-606E-92D86473867F) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/19 "2014-01-07T14:25:31Z")
I wonder if they are removable? I think even none ferrous metals have a problem with MRI’s. Or am I wrong about that? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-line-up-to-be-the-first-in-your-neighborhood-to-get-eyeball-studs/677913/20 "2014-01-11T00:33:03Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I wonder if they are removable? I think even none ferrous metals have a problem with MRI’s. Or am I wrong about that? Do non-ferrous metals have a problem with MRIs? More to the point, do _MRIs_ have a problem with _them_? [Here is something about the procedure from a decade ago.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3610379.stm) “The technique is harmless and carries no side effects, say its Dutch pioneers,” so that claim isn’t new, either.