PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) is a substance used in aesthetic procedures, but it can pose serious health risks and even cause a stroke, a health concern addressed by journalist and model Lygia Fazio.
A model Lygia Fazio dies, 40 years oldhighlighted the health risks caused by cosmetic procedures with PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate). The journalist had suffered a stroke three weeks ago and, according to reports from friends, health problems began after resorting to an aesthetic procedure which associated the substance with industrial silicone.
“The risk of PMM associated with stroke is at the time of injection. Injected into an artery, this product could enter the artery as an embolus and hit a vessel in the brain. So that would be the risk. However, from what I’ve seen this model, she had the procedures three years ago, so she didn’t die from a PMM embolism that went to her brain and caused a stroke,” explains the dermatologist Daniel Coimbra, of the Les Peaux clinic.
For the specialist, the complications of the procedure that they were fatal in the case of Licia Fazio. “There were a lot of inflammatory reactions that she had in response to these two products that she was injected with, which are PMMA and silicone,” she analyzes.
Is it possible to dissolve PMMA?
As a polymer, the PMMA lasts forever in the body and therefore cannot be removed with the same ease as other fillers such as hyaluronic acid. “It can be removed from the body, only surgically. So, for example, if you have PMMA on your lip, you have to remove a piece of the lip where this product is. That’s how you remove the product,” she indicates…
Source: Terra
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