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What are the risks with injectable treatments?
Patient safety should always be your clinic and your practitioner’s number one priority. After all, a needle is being placed beneath your skin and a foreign substance is being injected into your face or body. One of the main dangers patients face is if an injection goes wrong. Complications are possible no matter the experience, training or qualifications of an injector however, someone medically trained would know what to do. They are able to respond in a medical emergency and can use prescription medication to put right any problems. Someone with no medical qualifications is unable to deal with a complication and is also probably unable to recognise it. Ultimately fillers can lead to damage to the tissues, blockage of blood vessels and in rare cases they can cause blindness.
It’s important that your practitioner has a detailed knowledge of anatomy to make sure that wherever they place the needle, they are doing it at minimum risk to you, and that requires anatomical knowledge.
If you’re going to a non-medical injector it’s vital to understand that you are literally putting your life in their hands.
What can I do to ensure my own safety?
Research research research!