Soft Tissue Fillers

Dermal fillers are gel-like materials that are injected into unwanted folds, creases, and wrinkles to provide a more youthful appearance. Fillers can be used to augment the lip lines and the lips themselves, to fill creases and lines around the mouth, and to replace the volume loss in the cheek areas that naturally occurs with aging.

The administration of dermal fillers is sometimes referred to as "soft tissue augmentation".

Treatment with a dermal filler is often combined with other beauty-enhancing procedures, such as botulinum toxin (Botox or Dysport), which can prolong their aesthetic effects.

Restylane

The Restylane family of products includes Restylane-L and Perlane-L®. These products can be used individually to add volume and fullness to the skin to correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as the lines from your nose to the corners of your mouth (nasolabial folds).

A clear gel formulation of hyaluronic acid, Restylane works immediately by adding volume to smooth away wrinkles.

Important Safety Consideration of Restylane®

Restylane® restores volume and fullness to the skin to correct moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as the lines from your nose to the corners of your mouth(nasolabial folds). After your treatment, you might have some swelling, redness, pain, bruising, and tenderness. This will normally last less than seven days. Although rare, red or swollen small bumps may occur. If you have had facial cold sores before, an injection can cause another outbreak. In rare circumstances, the doctor may inject into a blood vessel, which can damage the skin. To avoid bruising and bleeding, you should not use Restylane® if you have recently used drugs that thin your blood or prevent clotting. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or under 18 years, you should not use Restylane®.

Restylane® should not be used by people with previous bad allergies, particularly to certain microorganisms known as gram positive bacteria; by people with previous bad allergies, to drugs that I have required in-hospital treatment; or by people with bleeding disorders.Restylane® should not be injected anywhere except the skin or just under the skin.
Patients should be limited to 6.0 mL per treatment. The safety or effectiveness of Restylane® for the treatment of anatomic regions other than nasolabial folds has not been established in controlled clinical studies.
The use of Restylane®at the side of skin sores, pimples, rashes, hives, cysts, or infection should be postponed until healing is complete. Use of Restylane® in these instances could delay or make your skin problems worse.
Restylane® is available only through a licensed practitioner. Complete product and safety information is available at