Is Q-Med Filler Similar to Restylane?

In medicine we always hear about how there are other products used in Europe and other areas of the world long before they are used here. The reason for this is that people in our country demand medications that are safe to use. Other countries do not have the same strict criteria that our FDA has and thus they tend to have more problems. Your second issue is that you'll have to find someone who doesn't care about injecting and illegal substance. We have great fillers here and there's no... more

Dear Bluearmy, these products are regulated by the FDA. You can not be sure that this product is the real thing. It may be confiscated at the border. You should have injections done by a Board certified practitioner who can show you that the product they are using is real, Unfortunately there are a lot of counterfit products and the risk is very high for complications if you have these injected, With Caution Trevor M Born MD

Restylane is the US-based product produced by Q-Med. If you are purchasing a product online, you won't ever know if it is good or bad, counterfeit or true. Anyone who is selling it online from Sweden (or wherever else you are considering) is potentially giving you bad or counterfeit product and I wouldn't ever trust it. Furthermore, any (and I mean any) surgeon who would take something from off the street and inject it into a patient's face is not a reputable practitioner. If someone came... more

Q-Med makes several different fillers and does license the rights to Restylane and Perlane to Medicis in the US. I agree with all the comments below concerning safety and outcomes. My favorite saying is "The results don't depend on the filler, but the filler (injector)."

Dear Bluearmy You might actually get the product you have ordered even though this type of importation is illegal. I am not an attorney but my understanding is that the Government is merely confiscating products it finds for personal use shipped this way. I have not hear of criminal prosecutions for this but I am going to guess this is at the Government's discretion. The problem is how do you know what you are getting. WIll you receive legitimate product or not? Personally I have do... more

This material is the international name for what is called Restylane in the US. The real key is who would be injecting the material. You might save a little on the front end (probably illegal however) but might be very unhappy with the outcome. To me with all of these materials it is more about the injector than the material. I am a strong believer that the injector should be a board certified specialist in either Dermatology , Facial Plastic Surgery, or General Plastic Surgery. Then... more

I believe this is illegal to do if you are an American citizen. You would also have to worry about whether the product is counterfeit.