Side Effects and Hazards Caused by Silicone Injection

Silicone injections are illegal and prohibited practices in some countries because they contain health risks. Therefore, you are highly recommended to avoid the practice of silicone injections.

Silicon is known as a polymer compound from elements of silicon and oxygen. Silicon has many forms and not all of them are suitable for humans.

With this in mind, the use of silicon in terms of human soft tissue fillers is judged to be illegal and banned in most countries.

Dermal tissue filling by injection is generally considered safe but can cause side effects.

The earliest side effects of silicone injections occur within a few days to weeks, this technique can cause side effects such as redness accompanied by pain, lumps, bruises, itching, hypersensitivity reactions, and inflammation for several days.

Side Effects and Hazards Caused by Silicone Injection

To be able to overcome this can be by pressing and using compressed ice cubes on the skin that has an infection.

Delayed side effects are side effects that can occur within weeks to years, such as granuloma inflammation, scarring, and implant filling migration.

However, this again returns to the material used to fill the skin tissue (filler).

At present, many different materials can be used. However, liquid silicon still has no security approval from the related parties.

Side Effects Caused By Silicone Injection


The use of silicon is quite popular in the field of body care and facial beauty. Generally, silicone injections are used by some people who want an instant step to appear more beautiful and charming.

The location of silicone injections that is often done is on the face, breast, hips, buttocks, chest, and arms.

Although since 1992 in America has banned the treatment of silicone injections, but there are also individuals who use it.

Silicone in the liquid form itself has been used for more than a decade, then used as a forming agent and skin tissue filler.

A radiologist stated that the use of injecting liquid silicone can pose a life-threatening risk to its users, such as pulmonary embolism.

A study that examined 44 patients after injection of liquid silicon, 25% of whom died from bleeding in the lungs.

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