PeggyFNP

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• Posted to Loved It All on 17 Mar 2010

  Give it a couple of weeks to settle in. The eye area is fragile and bruises easily. It's good that your Dr. only put a small amount of the product around your eyes, as it IS permanent and you wouldn't want it overdone. Artefill is only FDA approved for "smile lines". Lots of products are used "off-label" safely, but being a permanent filler, I'd be cautious getting it injected any place I wouldn't want it to be permanently. The darkness under your eyes is also common with fillers in that location, unless injected very deeply along the orbital rim, just in the tear trough area. That darkness/blueness is referred to as "Tindall's effect" and is just the veins under your skin in that area. As we age, we lose volume (fat essentially) and begin to look hollow. Eyes are tricky to improve the appearance of, with an acceptable outcome, with injectibles or surgery. If you aren't satisfied with your appearance, I'd make an appointment with a Dr. that does TONS of eyes and that the office can show you pictures of their work. I still LOVE my Artefill and highly recommend it, but probably only in the lower face.

• Posted to Loved It All on 30 Jan 2010

  Since it is a permanent filler, the manufacturer is very careful that only injectors that have passed hands on training and demonstration from THEM, are allowed to purchase the product. My guess would be that maybe your Dr. just hasn't taken the time to go through the training in order to buy the product.

• Posted to Loved It All on 30 Jan 2010

  I had 4 syringes of Artefill last April and I LOVE it!! No movement and it looks great. I previously had Juvederm in my smile lines, which I also liked, but after about 2 1/2 years, it had disappeared.