Ultrasound Diagnostics
YOUR SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY!
Aesthetic facial ultrasound is a painless procedure that helps reduce complications associated with dermal fillers. This is the latest technology to ensure our clients’ utmost safety.
Patient Preparation
There is no special preparation required for the non-invasive tissue visualization procedure using ultrasound. The patient is generally in a lying position while the doctor examines the area being analyzed. After taking a thorough medical history (information about previous interventions), we apply ultrasound gel to the specific region, which allows us to see all the structures in the face (the gel is completely safe and there is no risk of allergies). Then, we use a linear ultrasound probe to examine your skin layers. The procedure is completely safe, non-invasive, painless, simple, and quick, taking about 10 minutes to complete.
The advantages of ultrasound diagnostics include rapid data processing and result availability, which enables the detection of pathology in the early stages of the disease. Additionally, ultrasound has no harmful effects on the human body, unlike other diagnostic methods that use radiation.
Why is Aesthetic Facial Ultrasound Important?
Using this device helps visualize your anatomy, ensuring the correct application of products during procedures. It prevents complications, allows for vascular mapping, and diagnoses aesthetic complications such as the most common improper application of hyaluronic fillers (filler migration), which we can resolve in a completely safe and painless way by breaking down the hyaluron with a minimal amount of enzyme, making the problems disappear quickly.
Many patients do not have any medical documentation after filler injections and do not know what has been injected. With ultrasound, we can precisely determine the type of filler someone has in their face or lips (hyaluron, silicone, methacryl, etc.), as well as where the filler is placed – subcutaneously, in the muscle, SMAS, or on the bone.
With ultrasound, we see all facial structures from the surface layers of the skin down to the facial bones.
The most common complications, such as hyaluronic filler migration, occur in the lip region, under-eye area, and along the jawline (popularly known as the “jawline”). Overfilling is a procedural complication and can create lumps and patient dissatisfaction, but it can be detected during scanning and treated with needle aspiration or hyaluronidase if hyaluronic acid is the cause. Occasionally, there may be late reactions to injected fillers.
Conditions that can mimic the appearance of dermal fillers or their complications include:
- Orofacial tumors
- Lacrimal gland tumors
- Skin tumors
- Cutaneous lymphomas
- Sarcoidosis
- Dermatomyositis
Therefore, it is very important to come for an ultrasound examination, detect and solve the problem! All in one place, with a completely individualized approach to each patient in the treatment protocol!