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There should be no harm to your baby by having a Bellafill treatment while you are still breastfeeding, but in general, it is not recommended that breastfeeding women have any unnecessary medications or treatments to be on the safe side. Medical studies are not normally performed on breastfeeding or pregnant women because no one would want to take any risk of harm to a fetus or infant. The Bellafill, and the collagen in the injection, would not normally circulate throughout the body, so the substance should not reach your breast milk. I would recommend not having any other unnecessary treatments until after you are finished breastfeeding.
Hello! In general we go not recommend any of our clients who are either pregnant or breastfeeding to do any unnecessary treatments as their is a lack of clinical evidence regarding this. What I do know about Bellafill is that the Bellafill injection would not reach the circulatory system and therefore would not affect the breastmilk...but again we would not recommend this injection or others while breastfeeding just to be on the safe side for you and your baby.
Filler migration and granuloma formation can cause longterm problems with Bellafill and Artefill fillers. This is similar in patients who have Artecoll and PMMA fillers. Longterm filler complications include migration, edema, chronic swelling, and nodularity. If patients have filler migration or...
All good, immune system usually quiescent after Bellafill. If you are super worried and ultra conservative, I use saline as a buffer. The act of subcision will also stimulate FB or Fibroblast. Cannula subcision with normal saline buffer is the most conservative method. Acne scar revision c...
Hi and thank you for your question! The choice of needle vs. micro-cannula for injection of filler is often dictated by the comfort level of the physicians and their personal preference. Some do most injections with traditional needles while others primarily use cannula. In my opinion and with...