Are there any side effects of facial fillers?

Nowadays people love beauty, so plastic surgery has become a very common thing. Some people think that their face is ugly and too thin, and they want to fill it with fat, but they feel a little scared about having to go under the knife. In fact, facial fillers have certain side effects. Friends who want to have facial fillers must understand the side effects of facial fillers in advance. Below, the editor will give you a detailed introduction.

First, what are the side effects of facial fat grafting? Autologous fat grafting is generally used in undesirable areas of the head, face, or chest. There are roughly three steps: fat acquisition, fat extraction, and fat implantation. These three steps are closely related. Any problem in one link may lead to the failure of the entire project. The focus should be on the second step, which is to extract the fat and pass it through a fat centrifuge for center separation, select complete granular fat cells from it, and inject them into the required areas. Because the injection used for autologous fat filling is your own fat particles, rejection or side effects after autologous fat facial filling are extremely rare. This is something that traditional implants cannot compare to. However, autologous fat filling is definitely not absolutely safe and 100% effective, and any micro-plastic surgery project has risks. As far as autologous fat filling is concerned, the requirements for the collagen fiber network in the dermis of the filling area are very high, and there are many factors that affect the effect and even safety of fat filling.

Second, according to current reports, fat transplantation is not absolutely safe. Complications such as pain, edema, bruising, hematoma, and infection may occur in the early postoperative period (1 to 7 days after surgery). Pigmentation, excessive or insufficient transplantation, and nodules in the transplanted area may occur within 1 to 3 months after surgery. However, what needs the most attention and concern is the sudden blindness, shock or hemiplegia, or even death caused by fat embolism that may occur during fat transplantation. The occurrence of complications will greatly affect the effect of the operation and the patient's satisfaction, and may even endanger the patient's life or the function of important organs. Understanding the types of complications and their causes, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations is very important for preventing the occurrence of complications and standardizing the fat transplantation procedures. Therefore, this article reviews the literature on the complications of fat transplantation, summarizes the incidence and manifestations of complications, and explores their causes and treatments.

What are the side effects of facial fat filling? Issues that should be noted during the perioperative period of facial fat injection transplantation are: clearly inform the patient and immediate family members before the operation that fat embolism may lead to blindness, cerebral infarction, and even life-threatening, especially when the affected area is between the eyebrows, upper eyelids, and the upper 2/3 of the nose; preoperative examinations should exclude high blood lipids and low HDL. Hypercoagulable state with abnormal blood coagulation function. Avoid overlapping of multiple surgeries or damage to soft tissue in the transplant area. Avoid performing extensive liposuction at the same time. Avoid rough manipulation and excessive injection pressure when transplanting fat, and avoid using sharp needles and overly thin transplant tubes. Some scholars also suggest that even if there are no symptoms of fat embolism after surgery, fundus examination is still recommended to eliminate concerns about occult fat embolism.