FDA In Brief: FDA Warns Public and Health Care Professionals Not to Use Needle-free Devices for Injection of Dermal Fillers

The next quote is attributed to Binita Ashar, M.D., director of the Workplace of Surgical and An infection Management Gadgets in FDA’s Heart for Gadgets and Radiological Well being:

“Right now, the FDA is warning the general public and well being care professionals to not use needle-free units similar to hyaluron pens for injection of hyaluronic acid or different lip and facial fillers, collectively and generally known as dermal fillers or fillers. The FDA’s precedence is defending sufferers, who is probably not conscious of the intense opposed occasions which were reported in reference to their use, similar to everlasting harm to the pores and skin, lips and eyes.

Sufferers and healthcare suppliers ought to know that FDA has not accepted any dermal fillers for over-the-counter sale for at-home use or to be used with needle-free injection units. These unapproved needle-free units and fillers are sometimes bought on to clients on-line, bypassing session with a licensed well being care supplier, a vital security measure for sufferers to make knowledgeable choices about their private well being.

The FDA is monitoring on-line platforms for these unapproved needle-free units in addition to dermal fillers supposed to be used with needle-free injection units. We additionally need sufferers and suppliers to be vigilant by understanding which merchandise have been accepted by the FDA and the risks of utilizing unapproved merchandise, a few of which can be irreversible. The FDA will proceed to alert the general public and take extra actions as crucial with a purpose to defend public well being.”

Further Data

• Right now, the FDA has issued a security communication to alert the general public and well being care suppliers to not use needle-free injection units for fillers, which haven’t been accepted by the FDA. • Needle-free units are getting used for injection of hyaluronic acid or different lip and facial fillers, collectively known as dermal fillers or fillers, and are marketed as Hyaluron Pens, Hyla-Pen, microinjectors, noninvasive injection pens, noninvasive nebulizer syringes, excessive stress pens or sprayer pens. The advertising and marketing of those merchandise has not been accepted by the FDA.
• Needle-free units getting used for injection of hyaluronic acid or different lip and facial fillers are handheld units or “pens” that use excessive pressures to power dermal filler into the physique and not using a needle. They’re being utilized in sufferers in search of to cut back the looks of wrinkles, enhance lip quantity or change the form of the nostril. The person sometimes fills the pen with a product that’s bought individually.
• The FDA has not accepted any hyaluronic acid or different lip and facial fillers for over-the-counter sale for at-home use or to be used with needle-free injector units. Dermal filler procedures ought to solely be carried out with FDA-approved fillers, utilizing needles or cannulas, in a medical surroundings by licensed well being care professionals.
• The FDA is monitoring how these unapproved units are bought on-line as a part of the company’s actions on unapproved merchandise on on-line marketplaces and can take extra actions as crucial.

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