Dr. Sean Arendse
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And we deal with it immediately.
We don't let the patient go home and touch wood.
I haven't had one for a few years now.
But again, like this weekend, it does happen.
And one of my mentors, Professor Greg Goodman, who you know very well, says, if you haven't had a vascular event, then you're just not injecting enough
Okay.
So it's not a case that you, you know, if it's when it's going to happen if you're a high volume injector.
That was an HA filler.
Now, there are some biostimulators that they have done studies where they've injected them into rabbit ears to try and occlude them and they've been unsuccessful.
So there are some biostimulators that I would say were safer than others.
And there are some biostimulators that we could potentially reverse with an antidote that we have.
And there are some biostimulators that we couldn't.
And I've certainly seen cases through the Alfred Hospital where one biostimulator was injected, which was quite thick, and we couldn't dissolve it.
And the patient ended up having some hair loss, quite a large patch of hair loss due to that artery being blocked.
I think the best way I can answer this is a colleague of mine.
a woman came into her and said, I want to have Angelina Jolie's lips.
And she had nothing like Angelina Jolie.
There's no structure there to give her those lips.
And she said, the day you walk in here with Brad Pitt is the day you can have Angelina Jolie's lips.
This is when Angeline was married to Brad.