Correction of the middle third of the face and complications after injections

The face of every person throughout life is susceptible to physiological age-related changes, and each of its zones can express age-related manifestations to varying degrees. Modern aesthetic medicine makes it possible to correct various areas of the face with the help of many effective procedures, and injection techniques are especially popular today. Dermatocosmetologist Rudenko Igor Borisovich spoke for readers of estet-portal.com about the features of the correction of the middle third of the face and the main complications after injections.

Igor Borisovich, tell me, what cosmetic techniques are the most effective today for correcting changes in the middle third of the face?

In the practice of a doctor of aesthetic medicine, the most effective methods are the introduction of fillers, the use of botulinum toxin, the use of surgical sutures, and the use of drugs that change the volume of adipose tissue. In addition, I believe that methods that affect the skin are still important and relevant, as well as hardware methods that involve lifting and volume changes, such as exposure to ultrasound, radio waves, and laser techniques that change the condition of the patient's skin.

What results can be achieved by applying these techniques?

This creates two important results. First – it is rejuvenation, because we fight against the changes that occur with age, and the lifting effect – it's rejuvenation. Second – it is an increase in attractiveness, because we can act on some points at the same time that change attractiveness. For example, the nose, which also enters the middle part of the face, is exactly the part that changes the attractiveness. Yes, conditionally, if we have some kind of hump on the nose, this does not affect the age in any way, but making the nose straight means making the patient more attractive.

Tell me, what complications after injections do you most often encounter?

Complications are many and growing.

In general, all complications after injections can be divided into several broad categories: these are complications associated with the use of fillers, botulinum toxins, hardware techniques, dermatological complications, and complications associated with the use of threads.

If we take another classification, then these are inflammatory phenomena, and vascular phenomena, and immune phenomena, and phenomena associated with the incorrect or excessive use of certain methods. That is, the volume of complications after injections is colossal and enormous, and so it’s hard to say in a nutshell, but, probably, I would return to the classification that I just used.

When complications after injections can be considered a technical error, and when – coincidence?

All complications, depending on their cause, can be divided into 5 categories: those associated with the incorrect use of the drug or device, associated with the use of incorrect technique, associated with the use of the wrong dosage, the wrong selection of the patient and the wrong time for the manipulation. All complications after injections are connected with this, and there are no accidents.

Igor Borisovich, what methods do you specifically use to prevent complications after injections?

There are different methods for each type of complications after injections.

I believe that the best method of preventing complications after injection procedures – it is knowledge, knowledge and more knowledge.

The more knowledge we have about what we use, how we use it, and why we use it, the lower the risk of complications. Of course, you must first assess the situation, weigh everything, there are a lot of different recommendations for each complication. But it is the knowledge and understanding of the methodology that you are doing that is the prevention of complications.