Botox®, Prescription Medicine for the treatment of frown lines and crow’s feet. Botox® has risks and benefits. Botulinum toxin type A 50, 100, 200 units. For product information check with your doctor or consumer medicine information on www.medsafe.govt.nz. Allergan, Auckland.
Xeomin® is a Prescription Medicine containing 50, 100 units of incobotulinum Type A, purified Botulinum toxin type A complex for injection. It is used for the treatment of frown lines on the forehead, lateral periorbital lines and horizontal forehead lines in adults. It should be administered only by trained medical professionals. Talk to your specialist about the benefits/risks of this procedure in appearance medicine. Xeomin treatment lasts about four months and further courses of treatment may be necessary. Cautions: people receiving blood thinning medicines, care at the proposed injection sites, pregnancy and lactation. Possible side effects: headache, pain, swelling or infection at injection site, local muscle weakness including drooping eye lids, lack of feeling & nausea. You will need to pay for this medicine. Discuss with your specialist if Xeomin is right for you.For more information or for a copy of CMI please contact the NZ distributor: NZMS Ltd: 2a Fisher Crescent, Mt Wellington, Auckland, Ph 09 259 4062.
Dysport®, Prescription medicine for the treatment of frown lines and crow’s feet. Dysport® has risks and benefits. Botulinum toxin type A 300 or 500 Ipsen units. For product information check with your doctor or Consumer Medicine Information on www.medsafe.govt.nz. Click for further details. Galderma, Auckland.
Profhilo® containing low & high molecular weight hyaluronic acid, is a Class III Medical Device for the treatment of the face and body for contours redefinition and laxity remodelling where skin laxity is a problem. Profhilo® has risks and benefits. Do not use with treatments such as laser resurfacing or medium deep skin-peeling. Do not inject into inflamed areas or intravenously or intramuscularly. Possible side effects: pain and swelling at injection site. Accelagen Pty Ltd. Whanganui.⠀
Stylage S Lidocaine (16mg/mL), Stylage M Lidocaine™ (20mg/mL), Stylage L Lidocaine™(24mg/mL), Stylage XL Lidocaine™(26mg/mL), Stylage XXL™(21mg/mL), are medical devices Class III for the filling of medium size and deep facial wrinkles by injection into the skin and for creating definition and volume in the lips. Contains transparent cross-linked sodium hyaluronate gel of non-animal origin with lidocaine 0.3% to reduce local pain. Cautions: people with autoimmune disease, or who are pregnant, breastfeeding, under 18 years of age or have an increased susceptibility to keloid formation and hypertrophic scarring. People on blood thinning medicines. Possible side effects: injection site inflammatory reactions (redness/swelling, itching/pain on pressure) induration or nodules; discolouration. You will need to pay for this product and doctor’s fees apply. If you have side effects or concerns speak to your practitioner. Distributed by EnVogue Skin NZ Pty Ltd.
Sunekos containing hyaluronic acid and amino acids is a class III medical device that modifies the structure of mature skin, restoring volume, filling wrinkles and folds in the skin and in scar sites. Sunekos has risks and benefits. Sunekos should not be used on patients: with known hypersensitivity to any of its components; presenting with a general infection, inflammation or irritation in the area to be treated; or in patients predisposed to coagulation disorders. A local reaction. may rarely occur, caused by hypersensitisation phenomena, with symptoms that include oedema and sensation of burning and/or itching. These reactions normally resolve in two days. Consult your healthcare professional to see if Sunekos is right for you. For more information refer to the indsutrctions for use. New Zealand Sponsor: AA-Med Pty Ltd Distributed by: Xytide Biotech NZ Pty LTD