Restylane

What is RESTYLANE?
RESTYLANE is a gel that is injected into the skin in order to add volume to lips and lift up wrinkles and folds, RESTYLANE consists of hyalronic acid, which is a natural substance already present in your body. Once in the skin, RESTYLANE works by creating volume. Some dermal fillers are derived from animal substances. The hyaloronic acid in RESTYLANE is non-animal.

How is a Treatment Performed?
During treatment, the crystal-clear RESTYLANE gel is injected into the skin in tiny amounts with a very fine needle. The gel produces volume under the wrinkle, which is lifted up and smoothed out. When enhancing lips facials contours, RESTYLANE adds volume and shape to the treatment area.

How long will be Treatment session take?
Treatment with RESTYLANE is a very quick and easy process. As no pre-test is needed, the treatment can be carried out immediately. A treatment generally takes 30 minutes.

What can be Treated?
RESTYLANE can be used for smoothing out folds and wrinkles, lip enhancement and shaping facial contours. The most common areas are the glabellar lines (between the eyebrows), the nasolabial folds (from the root of the nose to the angle of the mouth) and the lips, through other sites can be treated. Very superficial or very deep wrinkles may be difficult to correct. Please consult your physician for an assessment.

Does it hurt?
Most people find the injections relatively painless. They may prick a little. If you like, a topical anaesthetic cream is applied prior to your procedure. When enhancing the lips, a local anaesthetic injections is often given.

How soon I will see the result?
The results can be seen immediately.

What will I look like after the treatment?
Immediately after the treatment, you can expect slight redness, swelling, tenderness or an itching sensation in the treatment area. This is a normal result of the injection. This discomfort is temporary and generally disappears in a few days. After the lip treatment, the lip may become swollen and some what uneven. This can persist for few days (upto a week). If the discomfort continues, please contact your physician.

What should I bear in mind after my treatment with RESTYLANE?
During the first 48 hours after your treatment, do not massage or rub the treated area. If you have had a lip enhancement, avoid puckering your lips or the first two days after the treatment. Until the initial swelling and redness have resolved, do not expose the treated area to intense heat(e.g. in a solarium or by sunbathing) or extreme cold.

Can RESTYLANE be removed?
No. However, RESTYLANE dissolves naturally with time. If you feel uncertain about the desire result, you can choose to have the treatment done in steps on different occasions.

Can RESTYLANE replace surgical procedure?
No. However, RESTYLANE is sometimes used in conjunction with surgery to fill out wrinkles that cannot be removed by surgery.

How can I get RESTYLANE treatment?
Contact your local practitioner for a consultation or the closest clinic which carries out treatment using RESTYLANE. They will answer your question and help you reach a decision. As no skin test is needed you can have the treatment performed immediately after the consultation.

What should I think before I have a RESTYLANE treatment?
Look at yourself in the mirror and think about the result you are expecting. Try to convey your expectations to your physician before the treatment and ask him or her what is possible.

Do I need to have a skin test?
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Are there any side effects?
The rate of reactions to RESTYLANE is very low. However, after the treatment some common injection-related reactions may occur, such as swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and tenderness at the injection site. These typically resolve spontaneously within a few days after an injection into the skin and within a week after the injection into the lips. Other types of reactions are very rare, but about 1 in 2000 treated patients have experienced localized reactions thought to be of a hypersensitive nature. These have usually consisted of swelling at the injection site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. Redness, tenderness and rarely acne-like formation as have also been reported. These reactions have either started a few days after the injection or after a delay of two or four weeks, and have generally been described as mild to moderate and self limiting with an average duration of two weeks.

Why do the lips sometimes become very swollen immediately after a RESTYLANE treatment?
The cause of this is not yet known, but there is no reason to believe that this is an immunological reaction. Normally, the swelling is gone within a week after the injection into lips.

Can RESTYLANE be used if I have undergone laser treatment or chemical peeling?
If you have recently had some other kind of facial treatment, you are recommended to wait until the treated area is totally healed and the skin has normalized (Usually four to six weeks) before you undergo a RESTYLANE treatment.

Can patients with allergies of different kinds be more sensitive to RESTYLANE?
So far, no connection between patients with allergies and patients that report a reaction to restylane has been established.

How Long does the effect of a RESTYLANE treatment last?
The length of time the effect of a RESTYLANE treatment lasts is very individual and depends upon many factors, such as the structure of your skin, lifestyle, age, the degree of perfection demanded and the injection technique of the practitioner. Experienced indicated that touch-up and follow-up treatments add to the duration, most people choose to have new treatment within a year after the treatment of wrinkles and folds and within 6 months after a lip enhancement.

Does RESTYLANE get stiffer in cold weather ? what happens in the sun?
You should not expose the treatment area to intense heat (e.g. in a solarium or by sunbathing ) or extreme cold for the first few days after the treatment in order to avoid the risk of inflammation as the area has been disturbed. However, once RESTYLANE has integrated into the body, it will adjust to your normal body temperature.

How will my skin look without follow-up treatments?
The correction will gradually disappear until your looks like it did before the treatment. Follow-up injections will help you to maintain your correction.

What are contents of RESTYLANE?
RESTYLANE consists of 20mg/ml of stabilized Hyaluronic acid and physiological sodium solution with a pH of 7. All RESTYLANE products are clear, transparent and viscous gets. Hyaluronic acid in RESTYLANE is not produced from animals. This means that there is no risk of disease being transmitted or allergic reactions being elicited if you are sensitive to common foods, such as beef, chicken, eggs.

What is Hyaluronic Acid?
Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance that is found throughout your body. It gives volume to the skin, lubricates the joints and gives the eyes their shape. The Hyaluronic acid in RESTYLANE is stabilized for long duration and is not of animal or human origin.

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