Dr., you have often brought up the issue of the need to have certain substances to prevent major problems when injecting fillers. I know there are many posts that mention that, but would like to review the matter without it being linked to one specific case.
I am talking of this because of what happened in the past month with an Argentinian model, an ex Miss, who had PMMA injected in her butt to make it bigger/better (gosh, how much PMMA is needed for that?!), but as the PMMA got into a blood vessel (I think that is the explanation that was given), it traveled to the lungs and caused an embolia.
Scary, huh?
I suppose iti is a problem that can take place not just with PMMA but with other fillers as well. Right?
In any case, how does a doctor inject something and knows that the product is not getting into the bloodstream?
Aside the issues that could come out from having large quantities of PMMA in the body, in the LONG term or medium term, what is what you can assume (I know you can only assume, since you were not there nor saw that doctor, etc.) happened? What can a doctor do wrong to have a substance enter the bloodstream?
For any patient, is there any way to know/learn if the doctor is doing whatever can be done to check if nothing is getting into a blood vessel?
Was it for that that you said you had nitroglycerine available? and if that's the case, why and how does it work?
On a sidenote, the same procedure (and I am not saying it is safe, no) is performed everyday in countless Brazilian people and relatively speaking, there haven't been (many) problems, at most stories of necrosis of a small part of the body. Does that indicate that whomever did that procedure was particularly not careful or good at injecting a substance? or can it happen even in the hands of good doctors?
The news were really big here and are the subject of a lot of controversy! - Therefore my asking you. So I can comment on it being better informed
