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Is Swelling/my Smile Looking Weird Normal After Perlane/restylane in Mid-cheek/NSF Normal?

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I got one syringe of perlane placed mid-cheek yesterday&one syringe of restylane for my NSF. Today, my face looks puffy&my smile looks unnatural/I can't smile as wide. My goal was to have such a subtle injection that no one but me would notice a different, which was how the doctor reassured me I'd look. I left yesterday liking how I looked. I woke up today and have found that the smile's all wrong&I'm way more swollen than immediately after injection. I feel ugly nothing like myself. Normal?

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