Virginia Beach Radiesse doctors

Radiesse can be an excellent filler, especially in the cheeks and nasolabial folds. However, it is not intended for the lips. It hardens and voluminzes through time. Thus, it can produce bumps and nodules. The hyaluronic acids fillers are softer and give a much more natural look. Further, if you are unhappy with the results you can have them erased with hyaluronidase.

To develop an infection four weeks after a procedure is a long gap. Still, the fact that you have developed an infection in roughly the same area is compelling. Perhaps, the guilty organism is a slow-growing bacteria or a deep fungus.

There is a significant difference in cellulitis and impetigo, so you might be well served to have that diagnosis nailed down. The appropriate antibiotic made hinge on which diagnosis is rendered. May I also toss in the diagnosis of erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire. This is caused by a Group A Strep and is usually easily cured (if treated early). The location you describe is perfect for this condition.

I would recommend that you consult with either a dermatologist or an infectious disease specialist. The area should be cultured so you can be placed on the correct antibiotic. f there is any Radiesse left this should be cultured also. I am assuming the physician at the Instant Care facility placed you on one. I agree with Dr. Aldea that you should not delay treatment if your condition worsens.

Drs. Katz and Persky give their usual sage advice. Plastic surgeons ( and dermatologists) have years of training and experience working on the skin of the face and its underlying tissues. Members of our specialties have done thousands of operations on the face. We have a comfort zone performing procedures in this locale , that a gynecologist lacks. As Dr. Persky says, it is impossible to make this up in a weekend course ( Dr. Persky is actually being generous here, a four hour course is more likely). Would you want me to do an endometrial biopsy on you? Of course not, and I would not blame you. Same should hold true for allowing non-"core" physicians to work on your face.

May I add something that I find very troublesome with any physician practicing outside their area of expertise.

Call me old fashioned but I think that a gynecologist, or any physician, owes it to his or her patient to try to deliver the best medical care possible. Hopefully, your gynecologist enterred medicine to help heal the sick and relieve suffering. It is my opinion that some physicians degrade themselves and our wonderful profession by tending to the vanities of society rather than holding steady to the foundation of medicine.

These physicians, instead of learning procedures and techniques alien to them, would be doing their patients far more good if theydevoted their time to reading and learning in their own field. They should be striving to became better gynecologists, internists, neurologists, anesthesiologists etc. Maybe they might pick up a cancer earlier, or diagnose a rare syndrome, make an interesting discovery. Something to really help people. Heal the sick, alleviate pain.

For a number of years I served on the admissions committee of our local medical school. I felt that one of my most important duties was to capture the applicants who had a sincere desire to help the sick and weed out the phonies. I can guarantee that none of the applicants I interviewed, when asked why they wanted to become a doctor replied, " I'd like to be a gynecologist and then open up a medi-spa so I can make lots of money." I can also guarantee that none ( few, if any, since we physicians are trained not to say none or always) of the other admissions people for all our medical schools heard this sort of statement either. Now look what is happening in medicine. Call me old fashioned but the change in attitude bothers me very much.