Re: Re: My Bio-Alcamid Nightmare...NOT

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In all fairness we do not hear about infections with

PMMA or Sculptra,

Bio Alcamid does have a unique problem and I have to

say that an infection in any one face is a major

problem.

While the % of infections might be low it should be

kept in mind that

this % might increase with time effecting more and

more long term users.

While we do not know if long term use of any fillers

will have other side effects, at this times we know

for sure that Bio Alcamid can

become infected and to me that is a big

disqualification, at

least in situations where other products are available

for use.

Mark

--- jim98122x <jim98122x@...> wrote:

>

> I also have had excellent results with Bio Alcamid

> and have experienced

> zero complications, sevreal years later.

>

> There is absolutely not general agreement that Bio

> Alcamid is a bad

> choice for lipoatrophy. There are definitely some

> cases being reported

> now of bad outcomes due to over-filling or bad

> techniques. Since it's

> been widely available in Europe for years longer,

> with many more

> providers offering it, you've got more chances of

> people doing it

> badly. Any good product can be badly administered

> and produce bad

> outcome, in the hands of someone who doesn't know

> what they're doing.

> There are plenty of crappy doctors in the USA now

> administering

> Sculptra, with little experience, doing cruddy jobs

> getting bad results

> or no results. It shouldn't come as any big

> surprise when so many docs

> can easily offer it, that some are no good at it.

>

> It's also important to remember the anecdotal

> reports of problems

> reported (and over-reported) on this list do not

> constitute real data.

> It's meaningless to say " x% of patients with Bio

> Alcamid have had

> complications " based on one or two doctor's

> observations, if nobody's

> counting all patients who have had Bio Alcamid from

> all sources, to

> begin with. Also, satisfied patients with no

> complications don't seek

> additional care. Why would they? Who's counting

> them? Nobody. If

> you take a careful look at the supposed " data "

> that's being bandied

> around about complication rates, you'll see it's not

> really data at all.

>

>

>

> >

> > I have had good results from Bio-Alcamid (injected

> about three years

> ago by Dr. Cassavantes at Clinic Estetica) without

> any complications. I

> suspect this is true of most persons who had

> Bio-Alcamid injected.

> However, I now have some areas I would like a little

> more filling in,

> perhaps as a result of absorption of

> Sculptra/Newfill that I had

> injected a few years before the Bio-Alcamid, or

> possibly as a result of

> some settling of the Bio-Alcamid -- although I can't

> see that it's moved

> anywhere it shouldn't be. I am considering having

> silicone microdroplet

> injections in the areas requiring additional fill,

> since the deficits

> don't appear to be too large, as the Bio-Alcamid did

> a good job of

> filling the larger deficits. If I were starting from

> scratch now with

> extensive wasting, I'd probably use PMMA, based on

> the reports I've seen

> on this list of complications from Bio-Alcamid and

> of good results from

> PMMA. I have no plans to have the Bio-Alcamid

> removed,

> > unless I experience complications, which I believe

> is unlikely. But as

> others have said, no filler is perfect, and I

> wouldn't be surprised to

> hear about complaints about silicone microdroplets

> or PMMA in the

> future.

> >

> >

> > My Bio-Alcamid Nightmare...

> >

> >

> > My Bio-Alcamid Nightmare

> >

> > Since I have seen several posts recently regarding

> complications

> > associated with Bio-Alcamid treatments, I thought

> I would share my

> > currently unfolding crisis..

> >

>

>

>

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