12 mars, 2007 13:40

Any Breast Implant that ruptures is dangerous to a, women's body and health!!

A thirty-year-old woman broke her saline breast implant after doing yoga exercises, a doctor revealed, amid calls for the government to lift its ban on silicon breast implants.

Cosmetic surgeon Chen Huan-tang said that the woman underwent a breast augmentation surgery two years ago and started taking up yoga exercises three months ago.

The woman, who exercised an average of three to four hours a week, woke up the day after taking a yoga lesson to find out that one of her breasts had become flat.

After examination, Chen discovered that the woman's saline breast implant had broke.

Chen said the saline was harmlessly absorbed into the woman's body, and no damage was done aside from the flattened breast.

Chen gave the woman a new saline implant which cost her between NT$50,000 and NT$60,000.

Chen said that a saline breast implant typically can withstand up to 50 kilograms of pressure, but he warned women who have breast implants not to engage in intense chest exercises.

Meanwhile, a cosmetic surgeon estimated that some 20,000 women undergo breast augmentation procedures every year in Taiwan, helping to create a NT$2 billion a year breast augmentation market.

However, the surgeon said, only 5,000 branded saline implants are imported to Taiwan each year, meaning that most of the breast augmentation surgeries use unregulated saline implants that have a higher risk of breaking.

Cosmetic surgeon Lin Ching-yun said that Taiwan is one of the few countries in the world which ban silicon implants that break less easily than saline implants.

She said that 98 percent of women in Europe who undergo breast augmentation surgery opt for silicon implants and hopes the Taiwan government can lift its ban on silicon implants.

A silicon breast implant procedure costs around NT$180,000 to NT$200,000, while a saline implant procedure costs NT$100,000, Lin said.