Dr. Sean Arendse

And I'll pick something that's less inflammatory or is less inclined to stick planes of the tissue together.

Well, that's the thing.

It's not like you fillers a couple of days or even immediately, whereas anti-wrinkle injections take two to seven days.

Your biostimulase are going to be in the range of weeks to months.

So you have to plan for this.

And you really have to educate your clients that this is not going to be a quick fix.

This is a journey that we're going to go on together.

It is extremely hard to measure these and it's very hard to photograph these things as well.

Absolutely.

So, we should never forget that what we're doing is a medical treatment.

So, it does carry risks, worst case scenario.

is blindness, and we can certainly get blindness with most of the biostimulators that are out there, so it's not a free shot.

Pain, bruising, some of them form nodules or historically form nodules, but there's lots of ways that we can do to make sure that we administer these biostimulators in the safest possible way.

And that's why, again, I would pick a medical practitioner that is experienced, that knows how to deal with emergencies in not just the cosmetic field, but also in the medical field to make sure that when we see you, you don't walk out or not walk out of the clinic being harmed or blind or having skin necrosis.

So I am a field officer for a group called AMET and they manage cosmetic emergencies around Australia.

So if there's an adverse event, then...

the call goes out to the field officers and we pick up the case and we manage the case.

Based on what state.

So this weekend, there were two in Victoria.

One was a vascular occlusion of the facial artery that was managed by a number of very experienced cosmetic physicians with ultrasound and