Dermal fillers are, for the most part, a fairly safe and risk averted procedure to have, but as with any other slightly invasive cosmetic procedure (I don’t put this one in the invasive category since no one is taking a scalpel to you), there is some level of risk involved, especially if you happen to have some sort of unexpected allergy to the materials that are being injected or some other unexpected adverse reaction to the procedure itself.
I recently saw an article that was somewhat startling where the headline read that the FDA had received a rash of complaints and adverse reaction reports on dermal fillers, although they were not specifically named by brand, and the number was startling as well, in the nine hundreds, however upon further examination I saw that (as with many headlines in the news), the headline overblew the real story.
What they were talking about is complaints that were received by the FDA in the entire last six years that dermal fillers have been in use popularly. When you break it up by six years, this is still of course not insignificant, but it puts that seemingly big number of people with reports of bad reactions in a little more perspective since it’s not that much out of the realm of possiblity that these were somewhat of a “fluke” and not the expected outcome.
Apparently people getting dermal fillers, which are injected materials under the skin which help to fill out wrinkles on the face and plump the lips, nasolabial folds and other areas that have lost their definition with time and age, have had a whole range of bad reactions from bad swelling to anaphlactic shock and severe allergic reactions.
Also, some reports of facial paralysis were received, although these were pretty few and far between and were definitely considered a rare outcome of injection with dermal fillers. Makes you want to find some good wrinkle and anti aging products like the Revitol vitamin and beneficial acids line that you don’t have to get injections for, but if you were looking to do it, I wouldn’t say to use this as a deterrent, it’s still a safe procedure statistically speaking.
The most commonly used dermal fillers today are Juvederm, Restylane, and Perlane, and they have all been tested for reasonable safety by their makers and approved by the FDA for cosmetic injection use to be used across the US on people who are looking to get their faces that youthful, plumper look for a few months at a time.