No Proof that Biofilm Bacteria are Causing Dermal Filler Granulomas

Abstract

An estimated 1000 patients worldwide, who develop foreign body granulomas after the injection of all kinds of dermal fillers, are treated falsely with systemic antibiotics over several months – just because one pathologist claimed to have found the reason for granulomas in a local bacterial infection. The problem is the easiness today how authors can find, copy, and refer to articles, whose results they never questioned but cited, only. One copies the results from the other – and by the way of repeating a hypothesis several times, it becomes the truth for the majority of a whole community of dermatologists and aesthetic surgeons