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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- Two leading researcher/physicians have publicly expressed reservations about the long-term safety of Artefill, currently awaiting final Food and Drug Administration approval as a permanent facial filler.
Sydney Coleman, M.D., a plastic surgeon practicing in New York, and Alastair Carruthers, M.D., a dermatologic surgeon who practices in Vancouver, B.C., voiced remarkably similar concerns about granuloma formation associated with Artefill and its predecessor products, Arteplast and Artecoll.
"It causes granulomas, and it does it more often than we would like to think," said Dr. Coleman at a facial cosmetic surgery symposium sponsored by the Multi-Specialty Foundation for Facial Aesthetic Surgical Excellence.
He said recent international meetings have highlighted the problem in patients from South Africa, Asia, and Europe, where permanent cosmetic fillers have been used for more than a decade.
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