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We do not recommend pmma injections it is possible that it can move. We recommend fat grafting.

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We do not recommend pmma injections it is possible that it can move. We recommend fat grafting.

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In 2011 next to Botox Injectable fillers became the most popular cosmetic procedure in the United States. Having been the physician responsible for the Black Box warning on Botox both the (more)

In 2011 next to Botox Injectable fillers became the most popular cosmetic procedure in the United States. Having been the physician responsible for the Black Box warning on Botox both the public and physicians are frequently unaware of the safety profile of certain injectables. Neither the FDA, the medical literature nor the beauty magazines provide adequate information concerning the problematic nature of certain fillers. The cosmetic literature in the United States is largely written by physicians who are supported by Big Pharma and there is little written about adverse reactions. This is not the case in the United Kingdom. Plastic surgeons in Britain in November of 2012 reported a dramatic rise in botched skin filler procedures leaving women with lifelong disfigurement. Some 70 per cent of Britain?s plastic surgeons have seen patients with problems resulting from temporary skin fillers.
In addition, half of surgeons reported seeing patients with more serious complications from permanent fillers or semi-permanent fillers. Of these, 84 per cent required corrective surgery or were deemed untreatable due to permanent damage.

While injection technique is important what happens under the skin once an agent is injected is far more critical. What you seek to avoid at all costs is an immunologic or allergic reaction to the implanted substance. Such reactions can cause large lumps that at times can be so severe they can result in facial deformity. The popularity of fillers for facial restoration has seen the approval of various injectable agents by the FDA which should have never seen the light of day. In the past, the permanent injectable silicone had been used but had been so problematic that the Justice Department filed injunctions against certain physicians on behalf of the FDA. After 2000 a dangerous pattern grew in the corridors of Washington, D.C., where politics and money changed the face of America and the field of aesthetics to the detriment of the faces of the consumers.
Industry and greed has accomplished the approval of synthetic agents which should have never reached the market. Once injected under skin the body cannot digest these agents and the immune system walls them off with resultant formation of nodules, which at times require surgical removal. One such product that was approved was Artefill® or Artecoll®. This product is polymethylmethacrylate or injectable Plexiglas beads. This product has long been associated in the worldwide dermatologic literature with scarring, and disfigurement only amenable to correction by surgery or steroid/5fu injection sometimes. At present, Artecoll®, the predecessor of Artefill®, is no longer available in Canada Furthermore both Germany and Switzerland had already advised physicians not to use this product..
We know from the experience of Artecoll® in Canada that pharmaceutical companies cannot be relied upon to report adverse events to authorities, yet the FDA claims that it can evaluate adverse reactions by relying on doctors and "Big Pharma" to report these directly to the FDA. Furthermore, merely changing the name of the product (e.g. Artecoll® to Artefill®) doesn't change the history or adverse experiences of the past. In the literature, consultants have used the names interchangeably. Furthermore, if Artefill® is new and improved, how can one gain FDA approval of Artefill® by studying Artecoll®
The purpose of the FDA is to protect the public interest in safety and efficacy of all medical products. Prior to the release of Artefill® in the USA, I contacted a senior member of the FDA with articles regarding the foreign experience with Artecoll but this did not prevent release of this product. Subsequently an article which quoted me in the ?Wall Street Journal? revealing the seriousness of adverse reactions to Artefill® helped cause the parent company to go into bankruptcy. Recently Suneva Medicial Inc. San Diego,Ca has brought this product back to market and I have seen as expected numerous adverse reactions . What follows are just two of the cases I have recently seen.


D.S. is a 33 yo female actor on ?Comedy Central.?On 1/29/13 she had a minor cosmetic
Procedure on her lip. While under anesthesia her plastic surgeon injected Artefill in the depressions under her eyes. As soon as she awoke she could not see. She told the nurse who brushed her aside. She went home and spoke to her surgeon the next day. She was highly anxious and still had almost totally lost vision in her left eye. Subsequently she has seen three retinal specialists who have concluded that the Artefill occluded the blood supply to her left retina. Presently she has lost total vision in her left eye.



LL is a 49 yo homemaker who had injections of Artefill 6 monthe before I saw her. She developed intermittent swelling around every site where the Artefill was injected. She has refused to leave her house. After a series of precise injections of cortisone and a anticancer drug 5fu into the sites she is currently 80% better.



Initially Sculptra received FDA approval for treatment of HIV associated fat loss in the face. This was a critical indication in that this condition had essentially become the Scarlet Letter of the 90′s and was in need of a method of cosmetic management. It has now been approved for individuals without HIV who are seeking cosmetic enhancement. Daily I get contacted by men and women who have had disastrous result from Sculptra.

DP is a 45 y.o. Female who 11 months prior to seeing me had undergone a series of three monthly injections of Sculptra to the cheeks, nasolabial folds, and perorbital areas. By the third visit he developed severe swelling in the periorbital area and refused further treatments. She had seen Multiple physicians for this problem all which offered either intralesional steroida or excision. When I first saw the patient she had 3 -4 nodules (>10mm) in inferior periorbital area eye and 2 on her right (fig 1). The previous physicians had attempted to treat these nodules with intralesional steroids with no response. I treated these with intralesional 5fu mixed with cortisone with an excellent response but in long standing cases it may not work.
MK is a 38 y.o female: don?t really need to see Dr. Klein but I want to relay a thank you to him for his stance on Sculptra in Realself. I was just released from the hospital 3 weeks ago and nearly lost my life. I have used Sculptra over the last 6 years and I loved it, until now. I had a deep neck infection or abcess that was linked back to sculptra. I had a touch up 3 weeks prior to getting sick. I had a surgery to put a drain in my neck and was given antibiotics, 24 hours later my airway was closing again and the infection was spreading. The doctors couldn?t understand why it was still spreading. I had a 2nd surgery to place more neck drains, intubated and put in ICU. My daughter was looking into all the case studies for sculptra and found out that the staph and strep biofilm infections are methicillin resistant drains, a total of six. I spent a total of 16 days in the hospital, 8 in the ICU and came home on 4 IV antibiotics and all the drains in place. It has been a few weeks with all the drains removed and off all meds. I am grateful to be alive and I respect what you are telling people because it is true. I don?t want to see anyone have to go through what I just endured and what my husband and daughters went through. I feel that the makers of Sculptra are hiding facts and it has everything to do with money. Again, I just wanted to express my thanks to you for being honest and taking a stand.
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Sculptra is an injectable agent that supposedly induces the formation of new collagen. However the FDA has never evaluated the fate of this injectable once implanted. Should not a biopsy be required for an agents approval? Contrary to what the company suggests from biopsies of reactions it is an ?immunologic foreign body reaction? that is noted after implantation . At times this reaction will fill volume but at others many lumps are seen. In the initial studies for HIV facial fat loss in the USA nodules were visual and or palpable in many individuals in these trials. 52 percent were seen in the VEGA study, and 31 percent in the C&W study. The average on-set was up to 218 days, with a range from 9 to 748. Scuptra has been now been approved for immunocompetent individuals. For this study every investigator was a paid consultant for the manufacturer of Sculptra and no biopsies were performed. This indicates how seriously inadequately cosmetic devices are evaluated by the FDA prior to their as well as others have seen large nodules above lip, in the cheeks, under the eye and elsewhere in countless patients.
Prior to its approval in the USA a European literature did exist on the problems with Sculptra. In a series of 100 patients treated, 5 cases of infection, 12 cases of granuloma and 3 cases of long term allergic reactions were noted (Aesth Surgery). I firmly believe these reactions must be reported by affected individuals directly to the FDA.

In 2013 The manufacturers of fillers underwrite the costs of large conventions,travel,exotic vacations,CME courses to the tune of a billion dollars annually. this behavior is rampant In the world of facial Aesthetics ? So please be cautious of what you put in your face or body or as an injector in you inject. Please read as much as you possibly can before you let anyone put a needle in your face.
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Where did you have the PMMA injection, as in in U.S. or out of country? Are you sure it was PMMA? I have never heard at any amount the PMMA migrating. Please respond so we can assist you. (more)

Where did you have the PMMA injection, as in in U.S. or out of country? Are you sure it was PMMA? I have never heard at any amount the PMMA migrating. Please respond so we can assist you. (less)

PMMA in large amounts is not a safe filler. There is a high risk of migration, usually takes few months after the injections to happen, and then the patient may see a modification on the (more)

PMMA in large amounts is not a safe filler. There is a high risk of migration, usually takes few months after the injections to happen, and then the patient may see a modification on the size of shape of the area where the PMMA has moved. Other complications are: Induration, discoloration, infection, among others. (less)