Article: Botox and injectable fillers appear safe for darker skin.(Dermatologic Surgery)

WASHINGTON -- Accumulating data suggest that botulinum toxin and injectable fillers are as safe and effective in ethnic minorities as they are in white patients, Dr. Gary Monheit said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Although most of the evidence supporting the use of botulinum toxin and fillers has come from whites, leading to hesitation about use in darker skin types, those modalities are likely to be the rest ones used in ethnic minority patients, because the initial sign of aging in darker skin tends to be volume loss, leading to frown lines, marionette lines, nasolabial folds, and upper forehead lines, said Dr. Monheit of the University of ...

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