Restylane

Many people are looking for that slightly fuller shape for their chin. Just a touch of additional volume can make an enormous difference in your appearance. Or perhaps you want a rounder, more sensuous line along your cheeks? And lip fashions are always changing with the times. RESTYLANE offer you a natural safe and long-lasting beauty lift. No other injectable implant can offer this concept.

Impressions of beauty change over time - as do our faces when we age. Smoothing out folds and wrinkles by adding volume can make an enormous difference in your appearance. This can now be carried out without the use of foreign substances.

Fast and safe method with immediate results
When treating wrinkles or folds the crystal-clear NASHA (hyaluronic acid) gel is injected into the skin in tiny amounts with a very thin needle. The injected gel gives natural volume under the wrinkle, which is lifted up and smoothed out. A treatment takes about 30 minutes and the results can be seen immediately. The method is fast and safe and leaves no scars or other traces on the face. Because NASHA is not from animal or human sources, and is chemically identical to human hyaluronic acid, a skin test is not needed and this means that you can have the treatment done immediately. Depending on the effects desired, an initial treatment and follow-up appointment two weeks later, is usually maintained with occasional follow-up treatments. Together with Doctor Sabean, you plan regular future visits to maintain a good result. Follow-up treatments normally require a smaller amount of the product. Most patients choose to have a follow-up treatment six to twelve months after an initial treatment of wrinkles. Clinical trials show that RESTYLANE is effective for up six to eighteen months after the treatment of wrinkles, depending on location.

Post-treatment
Immediately after the treatment you can expect slight redness, swelling, tenderness, an itching sensation in the treated area, and rarely bruising. This is a normal result of the injection. The inconvenience is temporary and generally disappears in a day or two. If the inconvenience continues or if other reactions occur, please contact your physician. Enhanced lips may swell for up to three days on rare occasions.

Do I need to avoid anything after a treatment?
Avoid touching the treated area within the following 6 hours. After that, a light make-up can be applied and the area can be gently washed with soap and water. Until the initial swelling and redness have resolved, do not expose the treated area to intense heat (e.g. solarium and sunbathing) or extreme cold. If you are using
aspirin or any similar medication, be aware that these may increase the bruising and bleeding at the injection site.

Side-Effects
After the injection some common injection-related reactions may occur, such as swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and tenderness at the implant site. They typically resolve spontaneously within one to two days after injection into the skin.

Other types of reactions are very rare, but about one in every 2,000 treated patients have experienced localized reactions thought to be of a hypersensitivity nature. These have usually consisted of swelling at the implant site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. If
this happens, it can be treated with local hyaluronidase injections to dissolve the hyaluronic acid and slowly eliminate the reaction.

Redness, tenderness and rarely acne-like formations have also been reported. These reactions have either started a few days after injection or after a delay of two to four weeks and have generally been described as mild to moderate and self-limiting, with an average duration of two weeks.

For more information, please consult Dr. Sabean or Priscilla

Before and After Images