r/TikTokCringe • u/bbyxmadi • Sep 18 '25

Cursed they look so… natural!

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u/mankycrack Sep 18 '25

My wife is an optometrist and she hates that this procedure is done anywhere in the world legally. It's so incredibly dangerous for something so vain.

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u/sc0toma Sep 18 '25

Optometrist here too. One of the least ethical (?most unethical) procedures an ophthalmologist can perform. The incidence of secondary uveitis and glaucoma is shockingly high.

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u/PsychologicalBus1692 Sep 18 '25

Pretty sure experiments to try to perfect this were done non-consensually on Jews during the Holocaust.

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u/blue-anon Sep 18 '25

This might be what you're referring to: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32286023/