Botched cheek filler —my smile is still ruined a year later.

It’s so disheartening seeing how many people have commented or DM sharing how they have gone through a similar experience. It’s insane how common it is for providers to be this misinformed about how a product works and or downplay the risk radiesse has. I had my mid 20s RUINED because of this provider. I would go on dates and men would not recognize me. It took 3 years just to feel comfortable smiling in pictures. Who in their right mind would recommend to a 24 year old with an already full face a non dissolvable filler, especially as a first time client that came in wanting voluma a dissolvable filler. Part of her issue is that she is so delusional and hard headed that the refuses to recognize RADIESSE IS NOT DISSOLVABLE. There is no FDA approved dissolving agent for radiesse. There are things like steroids or sodium thiosulfate but these have extreme complications and does not address the scar tissue that you’re left with from the filler. I’m 5 years out and no I do not have my cheeks back. Yes it has improved a lot but I want my old face back. I think So many in the industry are accustomed to everyone having pillow face that they don’t realize how bad it looks. Not to mention how insane it was for her to recommend and tell me radiesse is dissolvable she had no awareness of my facial structures and does not have an asthetic eye to inject it tailored to my needs. Originally I had a chin that was decently proportionate my main issue is that my mentalis muscle pull up so my chin curved up a bit. A well trained injection would recognized what I needed was a combination of filler in the mental crease, and Botox in the chin. That’s all i needed. But for an injector that doesn’t know how to tell what would good on a patient she injected the sides of my chin. This made my chin look very wide and masculinized my face. Not to mention it made my original problem much worse because that further pushed my muscle upwards. For my cheeks, she placed the filler too low laterally and then she put it in the apples of my cheek. From the pictures you can also tell how uneven everything was. This took away the natural curve of my cheeks. Honestly I was 24 and already had decent bone structure and volume in my cheeks. I did not need anything. She should have known not to recommend permanent filer to a 24 year old that did not have volume loss. With age my cheeks would’ve naturally sculpted out and now I never get to see what I would’ve looked like with my mature face. Yes the actual radiesse might not be in my face currently but it leaves behind collagen, scar tissue and it’s still there.

Almost 2 years later and my face is still puffy and my cheeks aren’t the same. I want my old cheeks back. My old smile. But i cant because this incompetent injector talked me into getting filler that is not able to be dissolved. F u. I hate you so much.

I wanted to stay anonymous with this review. It shows how unprofessional Lauren is when she DMs me on Instagram and literally listed my whole medical history and MY FIRST NAME on this public form. Questioning my intelligence, which by the way I do work in the medical field and I bet I had to interpret more scientific studies than her in undergrad. She wanted me to post the after that she took so here it is. I can’t believe she thinks this will help her case at all. You can tell how uneven it is. I posted the smiling before and after because that is my main issue. But you can clearly tell how botched it is in this one as well. This picture was taken at her office 3 months after the filler was placed. You can only imagine how much worse it looked initially. Also you can see on the lips how too much was placed on the sides on my lips and it gave me vertical lines. I’ve been avoiding pictures this whole last year because how bad I look like when i smile. Radiesse is a biostimulatory filler semi permanent meaning when it” goes away” it still is producing collagen and can cause a distorted look after the Radiesse is gone. I kept going back to Lauren because I did not want to admit to myself that I was botched and thought if I could fix other problems in my face it would cancel out the horrendous cheek and chin filler. It took the comment from her about kybella to realise that this practice is unsafe. When I went to go get my filler dissolved in my lips my practitioner noticed how bad my cheeks were without me even telling them I had filler there. Keep in mind this was 11 months after the original filler. According to Lauren it should be gone. Then why is it still this noticeable? Hmmm