Could blindness occur after fillers?

Hi there! Thank you for your enquiry.
Blindness occurring due to injecting dermal filler is extremely rare and if it were to happen effects would be immediate. A small amount of bruising/swelling is completely normal and should subside within a week. To minimise any risk of side effects it is always important to find a highly trained and experienced practitioner.

Hope this helps!

Dr Rupert

Blindness is extremely rare with filler injections.  Complications would be noticed immediately.  The small bruises you mentioned are typical from the treatment.  You can rest easy and enjoy your results.

Hi and thanks for your question. You will not have vision loss from your injections. Vision loss is an extraordinarily rare, but devastating side effect of filler injections that happens immediately during the injection session. I tell patients to think of vision loss as a plane crash. We know that, statistically, a plane can crash, but we fly anyway knowing that the risks are so small because we have a trained and experienced pilot in the cockpit. With injections, you have to make sure that you have an experienced and careful practitioner, whether they are a doctor of any specialty or a nurse, and your risks will be minimized. Hope that helps!