Complications from facial cosmetic procedures can include stroke, death, and vision loss due to embolisms. — Whalespan
Complications from facial cosmetic procedures can include stroke, death, and vision loss due to embolisms.
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“So when you're treating around the eyes for example or even into the temples, there are reported instances of stroke and death and vision loss and including treating around the nose because all of these vessels interconnect with the internal corateed system. So anywhere you inject a filler and you get into a vessel on the outside of the skin, you can create an embolism. You can create an embolism and it's going to go follow the path of least resistance once you bolus it into the tissue.”