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MD, PhD

Can you make a comment on rate of blindness in fat injections?

Aesthetics

The rate of blindness from fillers per se, fat as well as ha, et cetera, is very low, but it has gone up over the years. And the key issue is not necessarily the type of filler that you're using, it's where you're injecting. So there are certainly risk areas. The globe, bella, is one of the highest. Lower forehead and nose are probably the key areas that you have to be extremely careful or avoid for blindness because you have the chance, obviously, of the retinal artery being embolized. Now, there is a data that fat is, ah, highest up on the list in a sense, but that has to do with where some of the studies are published, where they're using fat more ha, certainly can cause blindness as well. There are many reported cases of this. So it's really about being careful in terms of where you are injecting, no matter what you're using. From that perspective.