Esthétique 1 (Fillers, Botox, Peels) Flashcards
Name some technical ways to decrease pain during filler injection?
- Small injection needle
- Slow fluid injection
- Cooling preparation
- Injection perpendicular to skin
- Vibration or flick movement
- Letting skin fall onto the needle
What are the main characteristics of HA?
- Stiffness (G1)
- Cohesivity
- Cross-linkage
- Viscosity
- Longevity
- Absorption
What are some signs of forehead aging?
- Concavity of lower third of forehead
- Increased forehead lines
- Flattening of the brow
- Flattening of the glabella
What are the characteristics of an attractive female brow?
- Starts medially at the orbital rim
- In line with medial canthus
- Slants upwards by 10-20 degrees
- Eyebrow peak = same distance from the head of the brow as the intercanthal distance
What is the safe placement of of filler in the temporal region
- Supraperiostrlal on bone using needle
- Subcutaenous using microcannula
What is the Tyndall effect?
“blue-ish” hue and skin irregularities (ie. Nodules) caused by too much injection of filler in the subdermal plane or in the superficial dermis
How do you manage Tyndall effect?
- Massages
- Hyaluronidase injection
What is the safest place to inject in the area of the nose?
Exactly midline and on periosteum/perichondrium
What causes jowling
Caused by descent of of fat and skin relative to the fixed pre-jowl sulcus.
Also partly cause by tissue deflation of adjacent zones such as prejowls sulcus, marionette sone and lateral oral commissure
Describe the features of a balanced lip
Distance between philtral coloms = height of lower lip
What are some acute complications of filler injection?
- Oedema
- Pain
- Ecchymosis
- Nerve damage
- Venous compromise
- Skin necrosis
- Blindness (retinal artery through the ophthalmic artery)
- Ophthalmoplegia
Which areas are most at risk for blindness?
- Nasal dorsum
- Glabella
What is the mechanism of action of hyaluronidase
Dissolves hyaluronic acid into small compound sugar molecules and water
What adjunct treatments to hyaluronidase can be used in the context of filler complications?
- Aspirin
- Warm compresses
- Light massage
- Hyperbaric oxygen
- Sildenafyl
- Nitropaste
What are the 3 different injection techniques for fillers
- Fanning (multiple passes in different direction without withdrawing the needle)
- Linear deposition
- Crosshatching (evenly spaced grip pattern)
What are the FDA approved uses of Botox
- Overactive bladder
- Incontinence
- Headaches in chronic migrane
- Muscle stiffness
- Muscular spasticity
- Cervical dystonia
- Stabismus/blepharospasms in 12yrs +
What are the FDA approved uses of botox for cosmetic uses
- Moderate to severe Glabella and crowfeet rhytid treatment
- Axillary hyperhydrosis if refractory to medical treatments
What is the mechanism of action of botox
- Inhibits the release of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction
- Blocks neurostimulation and muscular activity
- Causes muscle paralysis
What is the main difference between myobloc vs botox?
Myobloc has:
- shorter duration and quicker onset
- Greater radius of diffusion
- Higher pain with injection
- Type B toxin
What is the anatomic location of the procerus
Originated at the nasal bone and inserts into dermis of the glabella
What causes horizontal rhytids in the glabella region
contraction of the procerus
What rhytids is the frontalis responsible for
Horizontal rhytids ABOVE the brow
How do you differentiate between levator ptosis and frontalis ptosis?
Resolution of forehead rhytids
What causes vertical rhytids in the glabellar region
- corrugator supra-cilli
- orbucularis occuli