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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 hyaluronic acid, which is
a natural substance already present in your body. Once in the skin,
RESTYLANE works by creating volume and fullness.
  The hyaluronic acid in RESTYLANE is non-animal, which
virtually eliminates any risk of animal based disease or allergic
reaction.
BEFORE
TREATMENT
AFTER TREATMENT
How is a treatment performed?
RESTYLANE
comes in a 1ml syringe. 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 by attracting
and holding water molecules in your body. The wrinkle or
depression is lifted up and smoothed out. When enhancing lips
or facial contours, RESTYLANE adds volume and shape to the treated
area with a smooth, natural look.
How long will the 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
15 to 30 minutes. The time differs somewhat, depending on
the correction you wish to have performed.
What can be treated?
RESTYLANE can be used for smoothing out folds and wrinkles, lip enhancements and
shaping facial contours, including
under the eyes. The most common areas are the nasolabial
folds (from the root of the nose to the angle
of the mouth) and the lips, although other areas can also be treated. Very superficial wrinkles
may be difficult to correct with RESTYLANE. Very deep wrinkles may
require more than one syringe to correct.
Does it hurt?
Most
people
find the injections relatively
painless, however, there may be some discomfort. If you like, a
topical anesthetic can be applied to the area being treated prior to
your procedure. When enhancing the lips, a local anesthetic injection
(dental block) is often given.
How soon will I see the results?
The results can be seen immediately and
continue to improve over the next 1 to
2 weeks.
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 treated area.
This is a normal result of the injection. The
discomfort is temporary and generally disappears in a few days.
After a lip treatment, the lips may become swollen and look somewhat
uneven. This can persist for a few days (up to 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 for 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 replace surgical procedures?
No.
However, RESTYLANE is sometimes used in conjunction with surgery to
fill out wrinkles that cannot be removed by surgery.
What should I think about 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 them what can be done to achieve the
results you expect.
Do I need to have a skin test?
No skin test is required.
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 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 formations have also been reported.
These reactions have either started a few days
after the injection or after a delay of two to four weeks, and have
generally been described as mild to moderate and self-limiting with
an average duration of two weeks. This text does not contain all the
information known about these products. For more information please
consult your practitioner.
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 on many
factors, such as the structure of your skin, lifestyle, age, the
degree of perfection demanded and the injection technique of the
practitioner.
Experience indicates that touch-up and
follow-up treatments will add to the duration. Most people choose to
have a new treatment within 6 to 8 months after the initial
treatment.
Does RESTYLANE get stiffer in cold weather?
What happens in the sun?
You should not expose the treated 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 skin looks like it did before the treatment. Follow-up
injections will help you maintain your correction.
 
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