The OG! Restylane

All right, let's talk about the original Restylane. Now you see it says "-L." A lot of these products, they come with lidocaine, so it's a local anesthetic in the gel itself. Nice thing about that is as you're injecting it, you're kind of anesthetizing those areas. Now I'll typically use ice packs, topical anesthetic, and if I'm doing lip augmentation, which I mentioned in another video for Restylane Kiss, I'll offer patients doing a nerve block like the dentist does to really numb that area so you don't feel any pain while I'm doing the injection. So the original, I use this for lots of different things. For many years I use this for the lips as well, and it works great for that. So certain patients, it'll be a good choice, but it also works really well for what we call the nasolabial folds or the smile lines, using it for cheek augmentation. You can do little lines around the mouth, the jawline. So it's a good overall general product with kind of like a medium viscosity. So it's not too thick, not too thin, a good overall product.