Soft tissue augmentation - Fillers Flashcards
Fillers can restore symmetry and volume and recreate a smooth surface
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Radiesse and Sculptra are considered stimulatory fillers
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Sculptra is composed of calcium hydroxylapatite microspheres suspended in polysaccharide gel
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Calcium hydroxylapatite = Radiesse/Radiance is composed of calcium hydroxylapatite microspheres suspended in polysaccharide gel (not Sculptra)
Radiesse is composed of poly-L-lactic acid
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PLLA = Sculptra/New-Fill (not Radiesse)
Poly-L-lactic acid was initially used for the correction of facial lipoatrophy in patients with HIV
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Filling the lower third of the face is more challenging due to concurrent dynamic creases in this region
F Upper third (not lower third)
Fillers under the lateral eyebrow can be used as a substitute for surgical brow lift
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The types of acne scars not amenable to treatment with fillers include atrophic or rolling scars
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They are most amenable to treatment.
The thinness of nasal skin is associated with a higher rate of complications or unsatisfactory results with fillers
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Nasolabial folds and marionette lines have the least prolonged results with fillers
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‘smile lines’
Most prolonged and most popular treatment
Animal derived fillers include bovine and porcine types.
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The bluish discolouration that is a potential complication of soft tissue augmentation is known as the Tyndall effect
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There are very few absolute contraindications to prepackaged injectable fillers
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Robust local infiltration of anaesthesia should be used prior to fillers to decrease pain
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This makes it difficult to assess the endpoint of treatment. Nerve blocks should be used where possible.
Patients should be lying flat for injectable fillers
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Patients should be seated either upright or at an angle of no more than 45 degrees - this allows doc to see the effects of gravity on soft tissue
The results of bovine collagen last 6-8 months typically
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3-4 months.
The risk of hypersensitivity with bovine collagen is 10%.
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1-3%
Bovine collagen only requires pretesting for hypersensitivity reactions if indicated by patient history.
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All patients require pretesting.
For bovine collagen, 2 skin tests (performed at 2-4 weeks) is the standard assessment recommended for testing hypersensitivity
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For bovine collagen hypersensitivity testing, a positive skin test is defined as erythema, tenderness or swelling persisting more than 6 hours after implantation
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For bovine collagen hypersensitivity testing, a delayed reaction typically arises 2-3 days after implantation
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Contraindications to injectable bovine collagen include anaphylactic event of any cause
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Contraindications to injectable bovine collagen include lignocaine sensitivity
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Pregnancy and lactation are not contraindications to injectable bovine collagen
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They are
Contraindications to injectable bovine collagen include any signs of infection at the injection site
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Zyderm I is a superficial dermal filler
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Injected into upper papillary dermis
Overcorrection by 50% is required for Zyderm I and 100% is required for Zyderm II
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100% for Zyderm I, 50% for Zyderm II
Zyderm II is injected deeper than Zyderm I
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Zyderm II injected into upper reticular dermis.
Zyderm I is composed of 3.5% bovine dermal collagen suspended in NaCl with 0.3% lignocaine
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Zyderm II is composed of 6.5% bovine colleen suspended in NaCl with 0.3% lignocaine
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Zyderm I is more viscous than Zyderm II
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Zyderm II more viscous
Zyplast has the same composition as Zyderm I but is cross-liked with glutaraldehyde to form a lattice work
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Zyplast is less immunogenic than either Zyderm I or II
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Zyplast is less viscous than Zyderm I or II
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Zyplast more viscous.
Overcorrection by 25% is required for Zyplast.
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No overcorrection required
Zyplast is not recommended for the glabellar region
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Due to possibility of intravascular injection causing local tissue necrosis + rarely blindness
Cosmoplast and Cosmoderm are types of human-derived collagen products
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Skin pretesting is needed with human-derived collagen products
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There is no potential for immunologic reactions to hyaluronan in humans
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Hyaluronic acid fillers have a long duration of action, there no retreatment is necessary
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The efficacy of the filler declines as it is naturally resorbed by the body
The particle size of Perlane is much larger than that of Restylane
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Some products, such as Juvederm Ultra PlusXC, Restylane-L and Perlane-L contain local anaesthetic
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Robust local infiltration with anaesthetic is recommended
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It causes tissue swelling which makes it difficult to assess end-point treatment
Hyluronic acid is a naturally occurring glycosaminoglycan biopolymer which is a component of all connective tissues
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Hyaluronic acid exhibits significant tissue specificity because the chemical structure of the polysaccharide is uniform throughout nature
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It exhibits no species or tissue specificity for the same reason
There is no potential for immunologic reactions to hyalurnon in humans
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Hyaluronic fillers are infrequently used
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They are the most commonly sued injectable filler
Significantly greater duration of correction of glabellar rhytides can be achieved through cominbation treatments with botox and hyaluronic acid relative to hyaluronic acid alone
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Linear threading technique can be used for hyaluronic acid fillers
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Hyaluronic acid fillers should never by layered on top or beneath other types of fillers
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Fillers more appropriate for superficial correction can be layered above hyaluronic acid derivatives and deeper fillers can be used below.
For lip enhancement, the technique for hyaluronic acid filler injection should first include defining the lip margin by gentle injection along the vermillion border
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For hyaluronic acid fillers, perioral injections, injections of the lip and injections of the periocular skin are the least painful
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Most painful due to increased sensory innervation at these sites
For hyaluronic acid fillers, redness persists for a few hours overnight but swelling can least up to 1 week
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Swelling lasts up to 1-2 days
The mean total injection volume required of hyaluronic acid to achieve optimal results was 1ml of Restylane compated with 1.6mls of Zyplast
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Zyplast offers signicantly longer-lasting aesthetic improvement than Perlane
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Perlane is longer lasting than Zyplast
Thicker needles injure more tissue upon injection, thus cause greater injection discomfort
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Mechanisms to decrease injection pain are pre-injection application of ice, vibration devices, topical anaesthetics, local anaesthetic infiltration and nerve blocks.
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In patients who take aspirin and other platelet disaggregating agents, bruising may be delayed after filler injection
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Common locations for bruises are perioral rhytides, lower eyelids, upper third of nasolabial fold, upper lip, and lateral edge of lower lip
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Significant overcorrection is necessary with injectable hyaluronic acid derivatives
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Not necessary – should be avoided.
Overcorrection is preferred to undercorrection when injecting fillers
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unercorrection - can top up later if necessary
Injection-site necrosis is a common side effect of fillers
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Uncommon
Inadvertent filler injection of the angular artery (nasolabial fold area) or supratrochlear artery (glabellar area) can induce an ischaemic response with violaceous bluish-grey discolouration, pain, erosion and ulceration
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Large-volume inadvertent intra-artery injections with resultant full-thickness necrosis tend to resolve without significant scarring
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Scarring common