How Painful Are Radiesse Injections?

Pain with facial fillers depends on the skill of the injector.  Go to an experienced injector.  There are many ways to get you numb, and your surgeon should have the full array of options.

Any fillers injected may cause discomfort. When Radiesse was first used there was a delayed pain after a minute or so. For some time, most doctors have been mixing the Radiesse with a small amount of local anesthetic and it makes it a comfortable procedure for most patients. We offer a numbing medicine first, that is applied to the skin prior to the injections, and that helps minimize the needle prick sensation. Radiesse is not used in the lips  and avoided under thin skin areas such as the eyelids by many doctors.

In most cases Radiesse can be injected comfortably.  We can mix it with a little bit of lidocaine prior to injection, and that combined with topical numbing medication usually makes it a pretty comfortable procedure.  The key is to have someone inject it with experience and good judgement so that it is injected properly and chosen for the right areas of the face-  in some cases, a different product like Juvederm or Restylane may be a better option depending on the particular area of concern.

All fillers are associated with variable amounts of discomfort associated wtih injection.  There are several ways around this.  First you can use topical numbing medications or in some cases even a nerve block.  Secondly, the products are frequently being combined with numbing medicine in the injection making the process very tolerable.  The newest versions of Restylane and Juvederm do contain lidocaine in the them.  In the case of Radiesse, most doctors now are addiing their own lidocaine to it before injection.

We now mix lidocaine with Radiesse and several great fillers (Juvederm XC and Restylane L) have the lidocaine pre mixed. Because of that, and the use of good topical anesthetics (and sometimes nerve blocks), filler injections are amazingly painless.