What Can Be Done for Aquamid Side Effects?

Aquamid is one of many different products classified as permanent fillers and consisting of a poly acrylamide gel. It is my overall impresssion that aquamid has had a good safety record and that more problems have been encountered with Bio-Alkamid. Inejction techniques vary among the two products with the forme advocating a linear threading technique and the latter generally using a depot technique. Are you sure, you had Aquamid? Treatment would initial consist of attempting to extract the... more

Aquamid like so many other permanent and semipermanent fillers out there are very likely to cause problems if infected into the face. In general these products are or become less elastic and cause atrophy of facial fat and actually cause premature aging. All semipermanent and permanent fillers are also prone to granuloma formation and even late infections. When I treat people who have had sequelae of such fillers I use a combined approach of specialized fat grafting to... more