Clinical commentary about foreign body complications over 20 years after polymethyl‐methacrylate face implants and control of late sequelae with Polynucleotides Highly Purified Technology (PN‐HPT^®)

Abstract

Introduction: Mainly in the past, foreign body complications, including granuloma, were pretty frequent after semi-permanent polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) implants. Results:The authors describe a twenty-year history of recurring post-PMMA complications interspersed by long uneventful years, with acute edematous side effects evolving into unpleasant skin dystrophia with persistent cutis laxa. The case report also discusses a simple clinical algorithm to discriminate among foreign body complications with particular attention to granulomas.