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Ah, thanks. I'm surprised I haven't heard of body modders getting that done so they can see UV, that sounds like a neat superpower akin to people who get magnets embedded in their fingers. Going to research risks now..

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I'm going to guess the retina doesn't hold up to UV exposure too well. Seems very likely.

You would be right in the case of UVA light [1]. Though it's interesting that we have photoreceptors for UV light in the first place.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21646980

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