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> I have thought about this myself, but I thought that elongation being permanent or difficult to reverse was intuitive. If you stretch a piece of a plastic it stays that way.

May be different for living tissue. I wonder if there might be some brace developed to reshape the eye ball, that could be eventually removed. Of course the implant procedure might be incredibly, prohibitively invasive.



There's scleroplasty, developed and only practiced in Russia and some other ex-USSR countries. Seems dangerous, but somewhat effective (if you trust Russian research results): http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v24/n7/full/eye2009322a.ht...




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