Beauty
Your guide to handling injections gone wrong.
Youre entrusting someone to inject either a muscle-paralyzing toxin or a plumping molecule into your moneymaker.
But I was wrong.
Paul Jarrod Frank, a top cosmetic dermatologist based in New York City, for help.
Ahead, heres everything you gotta know about dealing with tweakments gone wrong.
(And those numbers have undoubtedly gone up since then.)
(This is what happened to me with Daxxify.)
More commonly, you’ve got the option to be left with a poor aesthetic outcome.
You may also experiencevascular occlusion, but this is your worst-case scenario.
In mild cases, this involves redness (erythema).
This is extremely rare, though.
If managed well, it can be prevented, notes Frank.
A good one will be as well-versed in injections as they are in handling mistakes.
That can be anywhere from one to four months, says Frank.
I learned that I didnt have as bad of an aesthetic outcome as I thought.
Thats why being very conservative on this lower injection is so important.
Since my crooked smile was from the neuromodulator, I simply had to wait it out.
This will wear out in a week or two, says Frank.
You inject this where you feel a lump or want to dissolve the filler, says Frank.
Youll feel it soften in as early as an hour or up to a day.
As he injected my chin, I barely felt a pinch its a similar sensation to getting Botox.
I experienced neither, and my chin looked like its former smooth self within a few hours.
On average, hyaluronidase injections can range anywhere from $750 to $2,000, according to Frank.
It can then be an additional cost for reinjection, he says.
While you cant necessarily prevent them, you could visit the right practitioner right away to rectify the situation.
You should ask them how many times a day they perform injections, Frank advises.
If they go by week or month, know they dont have significant experience.
Studies referenced:
Beer, K. (2012).
