Injection Infection!

In today’s world, cosmetic surgeries and procedures that performed to remove aging marks or give luscious set of lips is all too common The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) state that filler procedures are the second most popular non-surgical cosmetic procedure in the US. This made me wonder what the number one cosmetic procedure was and if it also results in bacterial infections like filler injections do.  Another common thing that goes in hand is the bacterial infections that result from these treatments. According to the article I read, researchers estimate 1:100 and 1:1000 bacterial infections result from gel filled injection procedures depending on the type of filler that was used. In some cases, people have even been left with permanently disfigured faces because the infections became too difficult to fight off. Researcher stated that it can only take about 10 bacteria to cause horrible lesion and create a tough biofilm which makes it almost impossible to treat with antibiotics. One thing that I would have liked to know which the article didn’t mention was the name of the specie(s) that causes that those infections, just for curiosity. I felt like the author was passively criticizing cosmetic practitioners only because they repeated that fact that practitioners believed that infections were caused by auto-immune or allergic reactions to the gel injected. The article also stated that practitioners refused to believe that infections were caused by bacteria even after research proved it. The good news is that infections can be avoided if by injecting prophylactic antibiotics with the gel filler at the same time. So just a heads up, the next time you’re thinking about getting a facial cosmetic procedure, make sure they use those antibiotics!

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