When should treatment with hyaluronic acid not be performed, what are the contraindications?

Treatment with a hyaluronan filler (this includes lip correction with hyaluronic acid) should be avoided if one of the following points applies:

• Persons under 18 years of age
• Pregnancy
• Breastfeeding
• Known allergy to hyaluronic acid
• Chemotherapy within the last 12 months
• Taking blood clotting agents (e.g. aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac)
• Acute infectious diseases (e.g. flu, herpes)
• Autoimmune disease
• Known wound healing disorders, tendency to hypertrophic scarring
• Increased bleeding tendency and blood diseases