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Is Restylane safe? Restylane has BDDE in it. On the FDA website it says it can increase risk of cancer

sandy96Apr 28, 2015

Restylane has BDDE in it. On the FDA website it says it can increase risk of cancer. they found this after a clinical trial on mice. Is this true?

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