Facial aging is associated with soft tissue volume loss. This volume can be restored with minimally invasive soft tissue filler injections. In addition, soft tissue fillers can be used to correct minor aesthetic needs like changing the lip contour, altering the nasal shape, increasing chin projection, or modifying the light reflex of the cheeks. All of this can be done with a small injection. However, care must be taken when such products are used as adverse events have been reported when the material is injected in close proximity to facial arteries. 3-dimensional anatomic knowledge can help to prevent such adverse events and can guide toward superior aesthetic outcomes. Learn in this module about facial safe zones and see the most novel and effective injection techniques demonstrated on real body donors. The knowledge obtained from watching this module will increase your aesthetic portfolio and will make you a safer and better injector.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the layered anatomy of the forehead, temple, periorbital, nasal, midfacial, perioral, lips, chin, and neck anatomic regions.
- Appraise the complexities of the facial arterial and venous vascular system in terms of depth of the forehead, temple, periorbital, nasal, midfacial, perioral, lips, chin, and neck anatomic regions.
- Compare the dangers and benefits of using a needle versus a cannula injection technique to address the forehead, temple, periorbital, nasal, midfacial, perioral, lips, chin, and neck anatomic regions with soft tissue fillers.
- Evaluate the 3-dimensional layered anatomy of the forehead, temple, periorbital, nasal, midfacial, perioral, lips, chin, and neck anatomic regions and select the most efficient and the safest fascial plane for administering soft tissue fillers.
- Analyze the function of the transverse facial septum as it relates to facial soft tissue mobility.
- Distinguish between superficial and deep soft tissue filler injections when it comes to increasing the surface projection of facial soft tissues.
- Describe the pathway of the superficial temporal artery within the temporal soft tissues.
- Describe the location of the nasal arterial system within the layered arrangement of the nose.
- Analyze the course of the superior and inferior labial arteries within the lips.
- Appraise the location of the supraorbital, infraorbital, mental, zygomaticofacial, and zygomaticoorbital foramina.
- Compare the pathway of the facial artery versus the pathway of the facial vein along their course in the face.
- Distinguish between the anatomic locations of the orbicularis retaining and of the zygomatico-cutaneous ligaments.
- Evaluate the arterial vascular dangers of the subdermal versus the supraperiosteal plane of the forehead as it pertains to soft tissue filler injections.
- Appraise the safety profile when using a deep needle versus a deep cannula approach when targeting the pyriform fossa with soft tissue fillers.
- Compare the arterial pathway of the ascending mental versus the pathway of the mental arteries inside the mental soft tissues.
- Distinguish between intradermal and supraperiosteal needle-based soft tissue filler injections.
Included Videos
The temple has a total of 10 layers, 4 major arteries, 1 major vein, and an abundance of motor and sensory nerves.
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