A Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon says a woman's size-D breast implants might have saved her life when a gunman opened fire at her office. Lydia Carranza was working at the Simi Valley dental office July 1 when her co-worker, the gunman's wife, was shot and killed.
Carranza was just a few feet away. She survived a gunshot to the chest, but the the bullet left a scar and deflated the implant.
"She's just one lucky woman," Dr. Ashkan Ghavamitold the LA Times. "I saw the CT scan. The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs. Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today."
Ghavami told the Times he will perform the reconstructive surgery at a reduced cost. He'd like implant companies to donate supplies.
But a spokeswoman for the hospital at which Carranza was treated said it's not a medical issue.
"It's a ballistics issue," Kris Carraway, a spokeswoman for Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, told the Times. "The emergency physician who treated the patient was not aware of the breast implant having any impact or whether or not it saved her life."
An LAPD firearms instructor told the Times it's possible the implant interrupted the velocity of the bullet.
"I don't want to say a boob job is the equivalent of a bulletproof vest," Scott Reitz told the Times. "So don't go getting breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet." First Published: Feb 25, 2010 7:25 AM PST
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A Man WITH a gun is a CITIZEN, a Man WITHOUT a gun is a SUBJECT
The longest odds come in eventually. This is why people buy lottery tickets.
The thing is, the odds of you being the one with the winning lottery ticket are vanishingly small. I can't think of even a brainless Hollywood starlet who'd bet her life on her fake yabbos stopping a bullet!
I must be getting too old. I had this image of little salt pellets imbedded in the skin as a kind of permanent body armor, sort of like an artificial alligator hide effect. Now here you are talking about augmenting various parts of the female anatomy.
While it made a good joke here, guys who want to appear to have been hitting the gym really can get surgically implanted pecs. I don't know what they can do about giving you an artificial six pack, though. Besides, the image of a large and pendulous beer gut with well defined abs just doesn't seem right.
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I do'nt care if they are bullet proof or not I'm not getting fake boobs! I had a old girlfreind that had them done when I was with here. She worked there so she got them done at cost. They look great but just like anythying else nothing can replace the real thing. Kind of like squeezing a dodgeball.
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