@chester, off topic, but for some reason I\'ve just noticed your goal is 6\"
Girth. Firstly I\'ll say as always, someone like you should do nothing, but now that\'s out the way, why on earth are you so interested in
Ellanse given your relatively conservative goals? I\'ve see you posting for months about
Ellanse but assumed you were looking for the more typical gains target of 1\" plus. In your case,
Ellanse make virtually no sense. From your photos you are really more 5.6\" than 5.5\", so you only really need a 0.4\" gain. For such a small goal, a good practitioner, like Dr
Oates, should be able to give a very natural result with
HA. The worry with
HA is that is lack the rigidity of the stimulatory fillers, but to gain 0.4\" the \"graft\" would be so thin you wont notice any difference.
Ellanse is also 30% concentration, when you could get a permanent gain of 0.4\" from 1 round of 10%
PMMA. If you are worried about complications, given your goals,
Ellanse should be placed 3rd behind
HA and 10%
PMMA.
The whole point of having a temporary filler is for safety surely. In the last 6 months I\'ve heard of 2
PMMA infections, 3
HA infections and 1
FFT infection. In that time I\'ve seen zero granulomas. So it seems infection is a great risk from fillers than our bodies rejecting the material. If you get a biofilm infection from
PMMA,
Radiesse or
Ellanse you are going to have a hell of a job shifting it. You can\'t just leave it though, so in the case of
Ellanse the fact it\'s not permanent doesn\'t really benefit you, as you can\'t wait years for it to go, to deal with the infection. With
HA, if you dissolve it, the infection will go or should be treatable. 30%
Ellanse will more likely leave you with lumps than 10%
PMMA in my opinion and has no safety advantage as it needs to be topped up, each time increasing the risk of what is seemingly the biggest concern with these fillers, which is infection. You big fear with
PMMA I assume is having to have it cut out, but that issue is still there with
Ellanse. We\'ve seen more infections in recent month with fillers than we have granulomas since PB\'s began.
If I were you I\'d find a good
HA injector on the East Coast. I understand why
Ellanse appeals to you, but ultimately, in your case, I just don\'t think it makes sense, given your goals.