Could A Breast Implant Save You From A Bullet?

Some seven years ago , a story was going around the Internet saying a woman ’s boob implant saved her liveliness after she was shot in the thorax . " The bullet fragments were mm from her substance and her full of life organs . Had she not had the implant , she might not be alert today . " Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Dr Ashkan Ghavami told theLos Angeles Timesin 2010 . “ She ’s one lucky woman . "

Lucky , indeed , but could a bosom implant really be a viable fashion to protect yourself from a speeding bullet train ? Some moldable surgeons at the University of Utah have been striving to find out .

The new study , published in theJournal of Forensic Sciences , carry out a series of ballistic trajectory tests where the researchers shot a saline breast implant with a handgun to see if it can falsify the slug ’s velocity or its trajectory , thereby reducing the probability of a gunfire harm .

They pullulate the saline implant with a handgun from a distance of just 2.5 meters ( 8 feet 2 inches ) . Behind the imitation breast , they put a block of ballistics gelatin , a gel with a corresponding consistency and formidability to human muscleman tissue . They also shot the ballistics gel without the saline implant in front of it from the same distance .

Their inquiry concluded a breast implant “ significantly decreased ballistics colloidal gel incursion ” by up to 20.6 percent decrease penetration distance . Without the implant , the bullet entered 40.2 centimeters ( 15.8 inches ) into the colloidal gel . When the implant was in front of the gel , it embedded just 31.9 centimeter ( 12.5 inch ) into the colloidal gel .

“ you could think of them as petite airbags , ” lead author Christopher Pannucci toldNew Scientist . He add that his grounds propose a breast implant could , in the ripe setting , protect the chest against a bullet train lesion , as well as stabbings , a fall , or a railroad car chance event .

Nevertheless , it would be dopy to think a chest magnification is a fail - safe way of survive point - vacuous gunfire . The bullet still managed to fully penetrate the implant and 31.9 centimeters ( 12.5 inches ) of the ballistic trajectory gel . Furthermore , this kind of injury would be likely to involve aruptured implant , which can understandably get along with a protracted list of complications .