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Dermal fillers

Chin and jawline augmentation: a frontier of aesthetic medicine

Dermal fillers are second only to botulinum toxin as the most popular non-invasive aesthetic treatments, with hyaluronic acid (HA) and calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHA and CaHA(+)) ranking as the most...

Comparing collagen stimulators and hyaluronic acids fillers: Ellansé vs MaiLi

CMC is a natural material derived from cellulose; it is not cross-linked, and is nontoxic. It is a recognised pharmaceutical excipient.

The safety of tear trough deformity treatment: an overview

As aforementioned, the unmasking of the tear trough and lid–cheek junction is related to soft tissue volume deflation with age.

The dichotomy of dermal fillers: when does the biostimulatory response become one of regeneration versus one of replacement?

The normal wound healing cascade consists roughly of four phases: the hemostasis phase, inflammatory phase, the proliferative phase, and the maturational stage. The hemostasis and inflammatory stages...

Acne scar management and treatment: a review of the options

Laser treatment of acne scars can be divided into two main categories: ablative and non-ablative (Table 1). Thermal injury delivered by lasers leads to stimulation of dermal fibroblasts, which...

Hear, hear for ultrasound

For many years, it has been considered normal practice to function without any access to imaging, except in rare circumstances. This would typically relate to the occurrence of a persistent nodule or...

EU Medical Device Regulation 2017/745 versus US Food and Drug Administration approval of dermal filler products

To ensure the safety and quality of medical devices, there are regulations that must be adhered to so that manufacturers can bring them to market. These regulations are implemented differently in...

Collagen stimulants in facial rejuvenation: a systematic review

In both cases, the search methodology began with a strategy to identify any existing systematic reviews on either substance or brand (as reported above). Peer-reviewed available evidence found since...

Treating nasolabial folds with dermal fillers: a holistic approach

The process of facial aging is complex and is a cumulative effect of simultaneous changes of different facial tissues. It can be explained on an anatomical basis, as changes with aging occur at every...

Enhancing the Cupid's bow with hyaluronic acid dermal fillers

An important process is assessment, planning and implementing (Seitz et al, 2019). As responsible practitioners, we must ask ourselves valuable questions during an examination. Although lip...

Using cannulas for dermal filler placement: why, when and how?

When precision of supraperiosteal placement of a filler with a sharp needle was compared with a non-traumatic cannula in cadaver specimens, the cannula was shown to be more precise in placement of the...

Cheek augmentation with dermal fillers: considerations for optimal results

So what makes patients seek out cheek augmentation, or actually do they do that at all? Many aesthetic practitioners will have experienced patients presenting to clinic requesting erasure of their...

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