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What to do if you get lumps or bumps after having dermal filler

Prolonged lumps after receiving a dermal filler is not a common complication but can happen with any dermal filler. In all but the rarest of cases these lumps, called a fibrosis or granuloma, can be treated non surgically. The best course of action is to call the provider that treated you first and let me them know what is happening. Experienced injectors will have seen this and know what to do to treat it.

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Hado moaning welcome well medical arts

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here answering commonly asked questions

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we have a good one asking about hard

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lumps from Bella fill searching for a

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second opinion before cutting to remove

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the lumps that’s not necessary

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I need to find a bellyful qualified

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doctor so first of all when we talk

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about lumps we talk about a granuloma it

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has the absolute same incidence it’s

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point zero one percent with all of the

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dermal fillers so it’s the equal amount

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you can have it just as easily from any

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of the by cross technology or hyaluronic

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acid or plla to PMMA they all have the

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same incidence of lumping with the bowel

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fill in particular there are certain

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people who tend to react to it a little

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bit more so we screen people do they

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tend to be like allergies asthma

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autoimmune disease people who tend to be

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more inflammatory and reactive also some

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people who have been exposed to

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something and and have reaction to it

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for example I had one person who had the

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flu and then they started to flare up a

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little bit I have seen the lumping and I

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do know how to treat them well after

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you’ve been doing it a long time you’ve

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treated lots and lots of people it’s

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just a numbers game you will see some of

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the side effects from all of the

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different fillers and then it’s a matter

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of knowing how to treat them which I do

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so with the Bella film what we do is we

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in

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intralesional which means right inside

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the granulomas alone with a steroid

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something called 5fu and sometimes

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collagenase that helps break down the

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collagen because the problem is actually

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called with fibrosis when the body over

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builds a collagen so we’re trying to

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break it down when we do this will help

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people come in every three weeks and

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continue to treat it until we’re tell

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it’s down we’ve had some that have been

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challenging and taking a little longer

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and then we’ve had some that go right

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now when you’re using this choice you

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can actually feel it melt right

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underneath your fingers sometimes so it

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just depends on how reactive that

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patient is we have not needed to refer

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anybody to have Bella Phil cut out or

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removed and the best course of treatment

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is the injectable anti-inflammatories to

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take down the lesion it just takes a

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full time

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