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Woman's acupuncture treatment goes bust
January 11 2005 at 06:31PM
Taipei - A shy Taiwanese woman saw her D-cup bust shrink back to an A-cup after receiving an acupuncture treatment for pimples on her face, a doctor said on Tuesday.
The woman, in her late 20s, who had saline implant surgery to enlarge her breasts, recently went to an acupuncture clinic to treat her facial pimples, said Dr Chen Huan-tang of Taiwan's Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
"The patient was told by the acupuncturist that needling would be done on her left breast, but being too shy to tell the truth, the woman just let the acupuncturist pierce her implant chest," said Dr Chen.
"Weeks later, she found her left breast shrank back to A-cup, a contrast to her D-cup breast on the right, and she finally came to us for help," said Dr Chen, who declined to identify the woman.
He said the small acupuncture needles damaged the saline-filled implant, resulting in leaking of the solution and hence shrinkage of her left breast.
"Fortunately, saline solution is not harmful to the body, or she would have suffered even more," the doctor said.
But he said it took much bigger efforts to refill the left breast to the same size as the right one.