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VIDEO: Surgeon reviews how to avoid facial filler injection complications

At Facial Aesthetics New York, David K. Funt, MD, FACS, assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, reviewed both short duration and long duration adverse events that can follow filler injection and how to treat them. Adverse events following filler injection are typically linked to the filler’s characteristics, poor injection technique, and a lack of anatomical knowledge.