Prolonged Pain After Radiesse

Hello am1, Sorry to hear about your friend's discomfort. I am assuming that your friend had the Radiesse injections to help "build up" her cheek bones or to help soften her nasolabial folds (cheek wrinkles). Potentially the pain she is experiencing is related to the injections which may have caused irritation, trauma or swelling of sensory nerves that provide sensation to the cheek area and her teeth. It is also important to make sure that she is not having a sinus infection - the... more

There are several side effects that can happen after a Radiesse injection that causes pain. The most common one is a bruise or a hematoma that occurs under the skin. These are typically very painful, but they will resolve within a week to 2 weeks. The other side effect is if the Radiesse was injected near the infraorbital foramen, which is the area where the infraorbital nerve exits in the cheek. This point is located in the mid-pupilary area on the cheek. If Radiesse is injected in this... more

Your friend should see her doctor. Sometimes injections of the cheek can irritate the sensory nerves to the face and respond as pain and burning. The pressure in a plane can exacerbate these feelings.

Your friend may have experienced bruising of the nerve that supplies sensation to the cheek and lip area during the Radiesse injection. The same nerve runs in the roof of the maxillary sinus, which would explain the worsening while flying. Pressure changes during pressurization and depressurization of the plane cabin, during descent and ascent cause expansion and contraction of the air in the sinuses. This could irritate an already irritated (from bruising) nerve. Alternatively,... more