Kosmetische Medizin 33(3-2012): 84-86

OPPORTUNITIES OF PAIN REDUCTION:
TOPICAL ANAESTHESIA BEFORE AESTHETIC TREATMENTS

KLAUS FRITZ^{1,  2,  3,  4}, MELTEM ÖNDER¹ UND GEORGE-SORIN TIPLICA⁴

1 Hautarzt und Laserzentrum Landau
2 Universität Bern
3 Uni Osnabrück
4 Univ Carol Davila Bukarest (Ro)

KEY WORDS: local anaesthetics, topical anaesthetics, lidocaine, prilocaine, tetracaine

SUMMARY:
Medical-aesthetic treatments are gaining popularity, particularily more and more minimal invasive methods are becoming available to attain an improvement of appearance. However, many methods induce moderate pain such as microneedling, radiofrequency, fractional laser ablation, fillers, botulinum toxin and mesotherapy. Pain prevents approximatly 50 % of patients to actually undergo an aesthetic treatment. Therefore it is of essential importance, to offer opportunities to eradicate or drastically reduce pain. This article tries to give a summarized overview.

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