Filler ("liquid rhinoplasty") blindness

What is on record

Unilateral blindness after non-surgical filler rhinoplasty (PubMed 29219792, search snippet only). 2019 London case: 29-year-old lost sight after salon injection by an unregistered practitioner (Harley Academy, search snippet only). 2019 Vancouver: Alyssa Nelson alleged filler entered the sinus, fractured maxilla (CBC, search snippet only).

Sources: 3

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In surgeon's terms

The procedure the record names

Pages on this site that explain the operation named above, written from the primary literature. They describe the procedure, not this person's surgery, which no surgeon of record has published.

• Injection rhinoplasty

  Injection rhinoplasty changes the shape of the nose by adding gel under the skin, usually hyaluronic acid, in a few minutes and with no cutting.

• Filler complications in the nose

  Filler injected into the nose can enter an artery and stop the blood supply to skin or to the eye.

• Septoplasty

  Septoplasty straightens the wall of cartilage and bone between the two sides of the nose so that air moves through both sides instead of one.

• Blocked breathing after rhinoplasty

  A nose that breathes worse after surgery than before it is the commonest functional complaint in revision practice, and it usually traces to one of three places: the internal…

Non-surgical and filler rhinoplasty in the journal archive: 99 papers