SILICONE FLUID, ATTRACTIVE AND DANGEROUS - COLLECTIVE REVIEW AND SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Silicone injection therapy for soft tissue augmentation gives excellent results when the material is applied in small amounts, especially in correcting deep folds on the forehead or in the nasolabial region. Unfortunately, one must sometimes cope with an unpleasant complication, which is not easy to overcome: the formation of a silicone granuloma, the so-called siliconoma. There is still much discussion about the etiology of this. This report surveys the different opinions expressed in the literature and presents my own experiences with the use of liquid silicone. © 1979 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.