Clinical trials

The goal of this post-market interventional study is to confirm, under real-life conditions, the safety and performance of hyaluronic acid-based dermal fillers intended to modify skin anatomy and facial appearance. Subjects aged 18 years or older seeking aesthetic treatment of the lips, perioral lines, nasolabial folds, cheeks, and/or infraorbital hollows may be included. The main question the study aims to answer is: How long does the effect of the products last? Participants will attend follow-up visits every 6 months after the initial injection, until the end of follow-up at 24 months. During each visit, the investigator will assess performance and safety through a simple clinical examination. At each follow-up visit, subjects will also evaluate the aesthetic improvement compared with their pre-injection appearance. Subjects will be asked about the level of pain experienced during the initial injection. If the subject wishes, a retreatment may be performed at the 12-month or 18-month follow-up visit, provided that the treated area(s) have returned to the pre-injection state.

Early postnatal repair of cleft lip and palate aims at the development of the child through reconstruction of the face soon after birth. Cleft lip is the result of a defect in the fusion of the buds of the face by default of cell apoptosis of the embryonic neural crest constituting the skin and the labial mucosa. Lip surgery or cheiloplasty primary of unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate is carried out from the age of 6 weeks. At the end of the surgical treatment, we often observe small unsightly residual volumetric asymmetries. The choice is then either to surgically reduce a muscular part too voluminous by reducing locally the volume of the lip, or to increase the volume of the thinnest portion this second solution is made possible either by injecting fat or by injection of hyaluronic acid. By adulthood, patients with cleft lip have often undergone 10 or more defect-related surgeries and many desire less invasive options to improve any residual cosmetic imperfections. The first use of a temporary alloplastic injectable soft tissue filler, hyaluronic acid (HA), for upper lip augmentation in a patient with asymmetry after surgical cleft lip repair was reported in 2008. There are few publications on the use hyaluronic acid in complement to the surgical treatment of cleft lip and palate, but all reported promising results.