Tattoo artist's body rejects calf implants

EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An Edmonton, Alberta, tattoo artist is disappointed his body rejected silicone implants meant to give breasts to an image of a buxom woman on his calf.

Lane Jensen, 30, has more than 20 tattoos, including the one of the woman on his left calf. On Dec. 9, a friend who is a New York micro-dermal surgeon implanted two silicone bulbs to give the image a three-dimensional quality, but things went bad, the Edmonton Sun reported Monday.

Lane's leg began swelling, and on Dec. 24 the sutures burst, the implants popped out and Lane said he lost about a quart of fluid from the incisions. He told the Sun he used his own surgical tools from his tattoo shop to suture the wound, but it burst a second time.

Doctors told him to leave the wound open and put him on antibiotics, the report said.

"In the end, if your body doesn't want something in it, you'll know," he told the paper.