Restylane™ Treatment
Q: What is RESTYLANE?
A: Restylane, which is non-animal, improves the resilience and youthful contours
of your skin and its ability to counter the effects of gravity, time, wind and
weather. Restylane plays an important role giving volume to the skin, shape to
the eyes and elasticity to the joints. Restylane, composed of Hyaluronic acid,
is found naturally in your skin and other tissues. Hyaluronic acid has a
chemical structure similar in many ways to sugar and is identical in all species
and in all tissue types, making Restylane a very safe product for you.
Q: How is a Restylane treatment done?
A: During treatment the crystal-clear gel is injected into the skin in tiny
amounts with a very thin needle. The gel then gives natural volume and smoothes
out the wrinkles.
Q: How long will the treatment session take?
A: In general a treatment takes 30 minutes. The time can differ somewhat,
depending on the correction to be performed.
Q: What can be treated?
A: Each of us has natural lines that can be improved. Restylane can be used to
give you a long-lasting and natural beauty lift: smoothing wrinkles and folds,
and giving your mouth a fuller, more sensuous appearance. The hyaluronic acid in
RESTYLANE is non-animal. Please contact us today for a free consultation.
Q: Does it hurt?
A: For wrinkle treatments no pain relief is generally necessary, however it can
be easily arranged at your request. When enhancing the lips, pain relief in the
form of a local anaesthetic is often used.
Q: How soon will I see the results?
A: The results of RESTYLANE can be seen immediately.
Q: What will I look like after the treatment?
A: Immediately after the treatment you can expect slight redness and swelling.
This is a normal result of the injection. The inconvenience is temporary and
generally disappears in a day or two. If the inconvenience continues or if other
reactions occur, please contact your physician. The initial swelling after lip
treatment may last longer. Some patients experience swelling for about a week
and the lips can look somewhat uneven during this time. This means that the
result directly after the treatment should not be looked upon as the final
result.
Q: What should I bear in mind after my treatment with RESTYLANE?
A: 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.
Q: Can RESTYLANE be removed?
A: No, however, RESTYLANE dissolves naturally with time. You can choose to have
the treatment done in steps if you feel uncertain about the desired result.
Q: Can RESTYLANE replace surgical procedures?
A: No, however, RESTYLANE is sometimes used in conjunction with surgery to help
fill out wrinkles that cannot be removed by surgery.
Q: How can I get RESTYLANE treatment?
A: Please contact us today for a free consultation about treatment using
RESTYLANE. We will answer your questions to help you reach a decision. Because
skin test is needed, you may qualify to have the treatment performed immediately
following your consultation.
Q: What should I consider before I have a RESTYLANE treatment?
A: Look in the mirror and decide which result you are expecting. Communicate
your expectations to your physician before the treatment and ask him or her what
is possible.
Restylane™ Safety
Q: Is RESTYLANE safe?
A: After the injection some common injection-related reactions may occur, such
as swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and tenderness at the implant
site. They typically resolve spontaneously within one to two dasy after
injection into the skin. Other types of reactions are very rare, but aboy one in
every 2,000 treated patients have experienced localized reactions thought to be
of a hypersensitivity nature. These have usually consisted of swelling at the
implant site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. Redness, tenderness
and rearely acne-like formations have also been reported. These reactions have
either started a few days after 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. For more information, please consult your
practitioner.
Q: Do I need to have a skin test?
A: No, the results of several studies and experience from over 700,000
treatments indicates that a skintest is not necessary.
Q: Are there any side-effects?
A: The rate of reactions to RESTYLANE is very low. However, after RESTYLANE
treatment, some common injection-related reactions are possible. Possible
reactions to RESTYLANE are swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and
tenderness at the site of injection. These reactions typically resolve within a
few days after injection into the skin and within a week after injection into
the lips.
Other types of reported reactions, which are very rare, include:
1 in 2000 treated patients experienced localized reactions, which were thought
to be of a hypersensitive nature. These reactions usually consisted of swelling
at the injection site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. Redness,
tenderness and rarely acne-like formations were also reported. These reactions
either started a few days after the RESTYLANE injection or within two to four
weeks after RESTYLANE injection. The reactions were generally described as mild
to moderate and self-limiting with a two-week average duration. Please consult
your practitioner for more information about these products.
Q: Why do the lips sometimes become very swollen immediately after a
RESTYLANE treatment?
A: Unfortunately, we do not yet know the cause of this but we have no reason to
believe that this is an immunological reaction. The swelling is normally gone
within a week after injection into the lips.
Q: Can RESTYLANE be used if I have undergone laser treatment or chemical
peeling?
A: Yes, but it is recommended that you wait until the treated area is totally
healed and the skin has normalized (normally 4 - 6 weeks).
Q: Can patients with allergies of different kinds be more sensitive to
RESTYLANE?
A: So far we have seen no connection between patients with allergies and
patients that report a reaction to RESTYLANE.
Q: Can RESTYLANE be used during pregnancy or lactation?
A: There has been no reported testing for use of RESTYLANE during pregnancy or
lactation.
Efficacy of Restylane™
Q: How long does the effect of a RESTYLANE treatment last?
A: The length of time a RESTYLANE treatment lasts depends on the individual and
many factors, including the structure of the skin, lifestyle, age, the degree of
desired perfection and the injection technique used by the practitioner.
Clinical experience indicates that touch-up and follow-up treatment will add to
the duration. In general, follow-up treatment for lines, wrinkles and folds is
needed after 6-12 months and 6 months after lip enhancement.
Q: Does RESTYLANE get stiffer in cold weather? What happens in the sun?
A: 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.
Q: How will my skin look if I do not get follow-up treatments?
A: The results will gradually disappear and your skin will eventually look like
it did before the treatment. Receiving follow-up injections will help to
maintain RESTYLANE correction.
Miscellaneous Restylane™ Questions
Q: What are the contents of RESTYLANE?
A: RESTYLANE consists of 20 mg/ml of stabilized hyaluronic acid and
physiological sodium chloride solution with a pH of 7. All RESTYLANE products
are clear, transparent and viscous gels. The only difference between the
products is the size of the gel particles. In contrast to other similar products,
the 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 and eggs.
Q: What is hyaluronic acid?
A: Restylane, composed of Hyaluronic acid, is found naturally in your skin and
other tissues and is not of animal or human origin. Hyaluronic acid has a
chemical structure similar in many ways to sugar and is identical in all species
and in all tissue types, making Restylane a very safe product for you.
Q: How was RESTYLANE developed?
A: Dr. Bengt Ågerup, and the company Q-Med in Uppsala, Sweden, succeeded in
developing a way of using a Non-Animal, Stabilized, Hyaluronic Acid to replace
the loss of volume in the skin after many years of research. The first
application, RESTYLANE, was launched in 1996. Prior to this, only collagen made
from cow hide and hyaluronic acid made from rooster combs were available.
Q: What is the CE-number of RESTYLANE?
A: The CE-number is the same for all Q-MED Esthetics products is CE 0562. This
is the number of the notified body. A notified body is an institution which
issues the CE-certificate, i.e. gives the CE-mark for products approved for sale
within the EU. The CE-mark means that the product fulfils the demands set out in
the EU directive.
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