I just read an article about a new surgery that claims to turn brown eyes blue.  Sounds too good to be true right, and after reading the article it probably is.  The procedure, which is being investigated in California (no surprise there), claims to remove the brown surface pigment of the iris with a laser revealing the blue pigment underneath.  The price tag is supposed to be roughly $5,000, which is more than vision correcting LASIK surgery.  My concern would be the risk of a potentially blinding case of glaucoma caused by the removed pigment clogging up the fluid drainage system in the eye.  Another concern would be that there is no way to know for sure if there any underlying blue pigment in a person's iris until the procedure has already been done.  You could have the procedure done and still have blue eyes.  Sounds like this procedure, even if approved, will not turn out to be quite as good as it sounds.