Calcium Hydroxylapatite Soft Tissue Fillers: Expert Treatment Techniques

Calcium Hydroxylapatite Soft Tissue Fillers: Expert Treatment Techniques is a hands-on reference book, created with the input of the world’s leading experts on the use of the product. It can be used by doctors, nurses, and other professional injectors to study the relevant anatomy, aesthetic target sites, injection techniques, and to review the safest and most effective treatment protocols available for this versatile product. As a training aid, the book contains multiple photo sequences as well as schematic diagrams to help in clarifying the proposed techniques. Links to multiple videos for review have been included. We have not only chosen to include the official on-label indications, but we also asked various internationally esteemed experts to share their ways of tweaking the standard protocols and to share their innovations. As a disclaimer, therefore, many of the techniques discussed are off-label and at the practitioner’s own risk.
Injection of soft tissue fillers is the second most frequently requested aesthetic medical procedure in the United States and The Netherlands. Only botulinum toxin is injected more than dermal fillers, partly because neuromodulators have a shorter longevity than fillers. As the relatively young medical field of aesthetic medicine is maturing, products and techniques are constantly changing to improve patient safety and satisfaction. While hyaluronic acid is the current golden standard and most frequently injected soft tissue filler, biostimulators have taken up a very prominent place in the arsenal of most aesthetic practitioners. There are a few commercially available biostimulatory products on the market such as calcium hydroxylapatite (CaHA), poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA), polycaprolacton (PCL), and tricalcium phosphate (TCP). CaHA is currently the most commonly used biostimulatory product and is injected in many facial and body indications.