Pleasanton Restylane doctors

Thank you for your question.

First and foremost, any time you have a concern about a recent procedure you should let your provider know. In our San Francisco Bay Area practice we advise all patients to wait at least two weeks after injection to allow adequate time for swelling to subside. Generally minor asymmetries subside on their own as swelling resolves but in some cases additional filler may be required.

For the highest level of experience and care visit the office of a board certified plastic surgeon.

I hope this helps.

It's safe,  but you have to be careful.  That is because the risk of embolizing (getting filler into a vessel)  one of the small arteries that supplies the skin between the eyebrows seems to be higher in this area.  If one of these vessels gets occluded by intravascular injection of restylane or any filler, an area of skin between the eyebrows will die, leaving a wound that has to be dealt with, obviously not a desirable situation.

Many patients want that crease between the eyes to go away, and if is well-formed, long-standing and deep, Botox alone will not take care of it. All Botox can do is stop the creasing over time and maybe the crease will improve or not get worse as a result.

When filler is used between the eyebrows, care should be taken to inject very slowly and smoothly and inject while withdrawing the needle. This technique lessens the chance that some filler will get injected into a vessel. Another precaution I take is to put a finger over the orbital rim to put pressure on the vessels. That will prevent any filler from going back toward the eye and collapse the vessels in the area to be injected, lessening the chance that filler will get into them.

Thanks for your question.

In our San Francisco area practice, we find bruising to be very unusual after any injectable.

Guidelines to follow include:

1. Avoiding blood thinning medications prior to treatment (eg aspirin)
2. Go to an experienced injector
3. There are treatments (such as cool compresses) that can reduce the chance of bruising even further. Your injector should be able to help you with these.

I hope this helps.