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Stroma Medical is a medical device startup in Southern California. They are working on a laser to change eye color by altering the pigment in the iris. Stroma is in their early stages of investigation, and it is likely this procedure will first be done outside the US where the regulatory environment is a bit easier for the manufacturer to work with.Risks are not known yet because it is a new procedure which has not been fully tested.
There is no such laser in existence. Lasers can reshape the cornea, cut flaps, treat glaucoma but eye color change is not a function of any known laser system.
Everything you describe is not out of the ordinary. First of all it is not unusual to be slightly overcorrected after surgery. This will pass. The scratchy sensation is related to post op dry eye and you can expect to feel this sensation on and off over the first two months. The cloudiness is...
Lasik flap never heals completely, its really stable and only vulnerable to direct eye trauma, but if you try to lift the flap years or decades after surgery you will be able to, femtosecond has exactly the same clinical results.
At +8.50D you are beyond the range of what can or should be treated with LASIK or other forms of laser corneal refractive surgery. These procedures steepen the cornea to reduce farsightedness. The extreme amount of steepening required to eliminate your degree of farsightedness would be...
