Breast Implants – Additional Uses
Because breast augmentation is the nation’s leading plastic surgery procedure — with 307,230 breast enlargement operations done in 2008) — there are a lot of loose breast implants laying around – for demonstrations and just for potential patients to see and hold.
So some come up with uses for which breast implants were not actually intended.
For instance, one Orange County blogger reports playing catch with a silicone breast implant at a plastic surgeon open house.
One of the most notable instances was a blogger who gave instructions on how to make from scratch — in the comfort of your own kitchen – a silicone breast implant for stress relief.
It seems the woman’s partner would just not leave her alone so she shows other bothered women how to make a squeezable stress relief toy in the shape of a silicone breast implant that should allow for some quality alone time.
Some uses even defy common sense.
For instance, a Canadian magazine editor had a very busty woman (pictured) tattooed onto his leg.
He later asked the tattoo artist to insert tiny breast implants under the appropriate chest area of the tattoo so that the ink-on-skin sketch of the woman shined in three dimensions, rather than two.
However, the tattoo artist was not a plastic surgeon. The implants later burst and the man developed a nasty infection in his leg. Lesson learned? Only plastic surgeons should perform cosmetic surgery!
In another medical first involving breast implants, a Florida woman had a lung removed as a child. That caused an imbalance inside her torso so that her heart actually changed positions, starting when she was only six.
At times, doctors listened to her heart beating near her kidney.
Doctors were stumped about what to do until somebody hit on the idea of using breast implants, stacked on top each other, to replace the volume taken away by missing lung.
It required a four-and-one-half hour operation at the world famous Mayo Clinic but standard breast implants were used to fill the space and keep her heart in one position.
Learn more about the heart supporting–breast implant operation.
What off-the-wall uses have you found for breast implants?
admin @ October 9, 2009
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