# Exploding breast implants? (as seen of Fark.com, TMI)

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**Created:** [January 22, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-breast-implants-as-seen-of-fark-com-tmi/225668 "2004-01-22T21:36:32Z")\
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[Link](http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12977609,00.html) to article.

Ok, assuming the quoted doctor exists and the quote itself isn’t distorted, how can a breast ‘explode’?

From horror medical docos, I’ve heard of implants leaking, and other cases where they work through the skin due to busted stitches- but explode?! It suggests that it may be due to inflammation, but I haven’t heard stories about implants rupturing due to bees and wasps.

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If you drop an egg onto the floor it explodes.  
If you stand on a grape it explodes.  
If you hit a walnut with a hammer it explodes.

Explode: to expand rapidly and violently.

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**Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-breast-implants-as-seen-of-fark-com-tmi/225668/3 "2004-01-23T15:53:44Z")

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I have heard of catastrophic rupture in the event of an accident - when impact occurs with a steering wheel during a car crash, for instance. Which might be described as “exploding”. But no, I don’t think the scenario proposed in the linked article is likely.