The area treated will be smoother after a period of several months, ( 3 - 4) due to the collagen regeneration. It's just a natural process. When you got injected the white blood cells came to the rescue ( macrophages). Your own collagen surrounds the macrophages and prepares your skin for a long term augmentation. You will notice improvement slowly but surely. Radiesse works with your own body and continues to work over time. It's a patented process called microsphere technology. It starts a process called collagenesis, stimulating your body to produce new collagen and encouraging collagen to grow around the injection area. I say all this because it happened to me. I researched and asked , looked in the mirror, researched some more, time went by, more time went by, and all the while it was just my body protecting itself and forming new collagen. So, in the end it all turns out for the best. The " time" it took to go through all this is something that my plastic surgeon or any of my prior research didn't tell me. It is worth it now but I won't do it again unless I have a few months to really recover.
Cody: Your gut is right in my opinion. I really think you should cancel for several reasons. If your doctor is wanting you to depend on Restylane and not on his/her skill of rotating a living pedicle of lower eyelid fat into the tear trough area I think he/she is looking at the whole operation in the wrong frame of mind. I am not a plastic surgeon or any kind of doctor but I've done enough research to see that your gut feeing is right. You should get a PS who is willing to redistribute the infraorbital fat, tighten the loose skin, remove most of the discoloration and much more. Just my opinion. I think you should consider the one doctor you saw that talked about repositioning the fat.
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