Novel assessment of lip redness and microcirculation using optical coherence tomography after dermal filler injection.
Neera R NathanLais Lopes Almeida GomesMichael Wang-EversPayal M PatelAbigail DoyleDieter MansteinPublished in: Lasers in surgery and medicine (2023)
The results suggest an increased microvasculature network observed in OCT-A images in young females. The increased blood vessel density and thickness observed by OCT-A after HA lip filler injection is associated with increased lip redness and volume as assessed by colorimetric three-dimensional photography; however, more research is needed to confirm these findings. This study presents OCT-A as a novel noninvasive tool to investigate changes in lip microvascularity after HA filler injection and indicates that HA filler procedures may affect lip vascularity.