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Does hyaluronidase dissolve your own HA and or fat or other tissues?

alexad35May 10, 2018
I have seen doctors completely disagree about this. So which one is it? If it doesn't dissolve your own HA can you explain how synthetic hyaluronidase would only get rid of synthetic HA?

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