Any doctors here NY Metro area based that have use the saline technique to flush out cortisone from a cortisone injection? My skin has a major dent and I am on month 3. I have tried fillers and it just seems to go right in and not make a difference, making me think their is still steriod in my skin. Anyone have experience with injecting saline to help? NYC based...HELP !
August 17, 2014
Answer: Saline Injections Can Be Helpful For Steroid Injection Dents & Atrophy In most cases, a tincture of time (usually about six months) works well for steroid atrophy resulting from intralesional steroid injections. In cases that have not resolved completely, I have used saline injections for many years now in my Upper East Side Manhattan practice. It has been my experience that it typically takes more than one treatment session to treat the condition. If necessary, subcision treatments, about which you can find more detail in the archives of Realself.com, can be combined with the saline injections to "jump start" the laying down of new, native collagen and better ensure a more permanent fix.
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August 17, 2014
Answer: Saline Injections Can Be Helpful For Steroid Injection Dents & Atrophy In most cases, a tincture of time (usually about six months) works well for steroid atrophy resulting from intralesional steroid injections. In cases that have not resolved completely, I have used saline injections for many years now in my Upper East Side Manhattan practice. It has been my experience that it typically takes more than one treatment session to treat the condition. If necessary, subcision treatments, about which you can find more detail in the archives of Realself.com, can be combined with the saline injections to "jump start" the laying down of new, native collagen and better ensure a more permanent fix.
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Answer: Facial dent: saline vs filler This is a frustrating problem. There is no evidence that injecting saline will help and in fact if anything, it will just further traumatize the area. The damage has already been done from the steroid injection. Given that this often improves to some degree over time, I'd recommend filler which will both help the visible defect and create a bit of collagen stimulation for long term improvement. It's impossible to recommend which filler from the photo but sometimes Belotero can work well injected into the skin itself and sometimes you can layer fillers such as Radiesse (which is thicker and stimulates collagen) deep and Belotero into the skin. See an experienced injector. In my experience, surgery at this point may leave a prominent scar which may be hard to camoflouge.Best of luck,
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Answer: Facial dent: saline vs filler This is a frustrating problem. There is no evidence that injecting saline will help and in fact if anything, it will just further traumatize the area. The damage has already been done from the steroid injection. Given that this often improves to some degree over time, I'd recommend filler which will both help the visible defect and create a bit of collagen stimulation for long term improvement. It's impossible to recommend which filler from the photo but sometimes Belotero can work well injected into the skin itself and sometimes you can layer fillers such as Radiesse (which is thicker and stimulates collagen) deep and Belotero into the skin. See an experienced injector. In my experience, surgery at this point may leave a prominent scar which may be hard to camoflouge.Best of luck,
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