Breast Implants May Have Shielded Her from Gun Blast

A surgeon in California has been speaking publicly about the harrowing story of workplace violence that left one of his patients with scars and deflated implants.

The article on LA Times.com is about Lydia Carranza, who was shot in the chest last summer during an incident that claimed the life of her co-worker.  When a man opened fire in the dental office where she worked, Lydia was shot twice: “The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs,” said Dr. Ashkan Ghavami to the Los Angeles Times.

According to a firearms expert interviewed for the story, the deciding factor between life and death for Lydia may have been the presence of her saline breast implant.  Of course he goes on to tell readers they should not get “breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet.”

Lydia’s surgeon is hoping her story will elicit a supply contribution from manufacturers of saline breast implants.

Read Lydia’s story on LATimes.com