Dr. Cameron Chesnut and Gary Brecka argue that facial fillers marketed as temporary actually behave like permanent implants. Over years, they can distort your face. Chesnut regularly removes fillers during surgery and questions claims that they leave no lasting damage.
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It seemed like for the last 10 years, I saw this dramatically progressive of women with normally large lip. It seems like there's a filler revolution. This perception drifts. By the time she's in her 30s or 40s, their face looks noticeably distorted through everyone but them.
The FDA trials, they looked at a certain time frame until it quit correcting, and then they said, oh, well, it's not correcting anymore. That doesn't mean the filler is gone. This is a permanent to semi permanent implant, but it's viewed as lasting six to 12 months, which is really problematic over time. It's rare that I do it surgery now where I'm not managing film. Every single time I'm manually removing it, I'm trying to dissolve it. The literature says that there's no issues to our native tissue. I don't fully believe that.