Bee Sting Bursts Breast Implant

[Vardoger]

Bee sting burst breast implant

A Taiwanese woman's breast implant was reportedly burst by a bee sting.

The 31-year-old woman, from Miaoli town, was wearing a low-cut dress while riding her motorcycle when her right breast was stung by a bee.

"My right breast disappeared in only two days," said the woman, who received the implant three years ago, according to Southern China City News.

Surgeon Zeng Dingchang says the saline implant is supposed to resist pressure of up to 200 kg, and said it was "very strange" for one to deflate because of a bee sting.

"She is very skinny, and the implant made the skin of her breast even thinner, and therefore easy to penetrate," he said.

The surgeon has now performed a replacement implanted operation - but warns that acupuncture or yoga could cause it to burst again.

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[barfing_pumpkin]

Puts a whole new spin on 'The birds and the bees', doesn't it!

c'mon, the joke was inevitable...

 

[Yithian]

This will sound naïve, but how deep beneath the skin does the actual implant portion of a breast implant reside?

I always assumed it would sit beneath a layer of natural fat.

I'd rather not Google, I have an aversion to medical images.

 

[EnolaGaia]

This will sound naïve, but how deep beneath the skin does the actual implant portion of a breast implant reside?
I always assumed it would sit beneath a layer of natural fat.

The method for inserting and positioning breast implants depends on the type of implant, degree of enlargement desired, your body type and your surgeon's recommendations.

https://www.plasticsurgery.org/cosmetic-procedures/breast-augmentation/procedure

It depends on the individual case. As the linked webpage's image illustrates, the implant can be 'deep' (beneath / behind the pectoral muscle) or relatively 'shallow' (beneath the skin and underlying fat tissue(s)).

 

[Yithian]

https://www.plasticsurgery.org/cosmetic-procedures/breast-augmentation/procedure

It depends on the individual case. As the linked webpage's image illustrates, the implant can be 'deep' (beneath / behind the pectoral muscle) or relatively 'shallow' (beneath the skin and underlying fat tissue(s).

It does say that the victim was very skinny and perhaps this was one of those 'bees' that is practically a hornet.

(I know nothing about Thailand, but bees/wasps/hornets sometimes have a single common name in Asian languages and are only distinguished when necessary).

 

[EnolaGaia]

The plastic / reconstructive surgery professionals don't seem to think a bee sting could penetrate deep enough to puncture a saline implant. In a Q&A thread concerning a post-mastectomy-plus-implants patient stung by a bee, 4 different pros stated the odds ranged from highly unlikely to impossible.

https://www.surgery.org/consumers/ask-a-surgeon/bee-sting-puncture-saline-implant