What Researchers Did
Doctors described one patient's case of jaw bone infection that developed after a chin filler injection.
What They Found
A case report describes a 33-year-old woman who developed swelling, pain, and pus drainage in her chin one year after receiving 1 mL of hyaluronic acid filler, with antibiotics, surgical cleaning, negative pressure wound therapy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy failing to improve her symptoms. Imaging showed bone destruction, dead bone tissue, and calcification in the right jaw bone, leading to a diagnosis of mandibular osteomyelitis. She then had surgery to remove the dead bone. The abstract does not report whether this surgery resolved her infection.
Canadian Relevance
No direct Canadian connection identified.
Study Limitations
This is a single case report, so its findings cannot be generalized to other patients or filler procedures, and the outcome of the final bone-removal surgery was not described.