Botox® is a prescription medicine for the treatment of frown lines, horizontal forehead lines and crow’s feet round the eyes. Botox® has risks and benefits. Ask your doctor if Botox is right for you. If you have side effects, see your doctor. You will need to pay for Botox® and clinic fees will apply. 

For details on precautions & side effects consult your healthcare professional or the Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) at www.medsafe.govt.nz.  

Botox® treatment lasts about 4 months and further courses of treatment may be necessary.  Should only be administered by trained medical professionals. (contains botulinum toxin A 50,100 & 200 units) Allergan (NZ) Limited, Auckland.  

Juvederm Ultra™ & Juvederm Ultra Plus™ are medical devices Class III for the filling of medium size and deep facial wrinkles by injection into the skin and for creating definition and volume in the lips. Contains 24mg/mL. cross-linked hyaluronic acid. Juvederm has risks and benefits. 

Cautions: Use in an area that has been treated with another dermal filler, people with autoimmune disease, or who are pregnant, breastfeeding, under 18 years of age or have an increased susceptibility to keloid formation and hypertrophic scarring. People on blood thinning medicines. 

Possible side effects: injection site inflammatory reactions (redness/swelling, itching/pain on pressure) induration or nodules; discolouration; weak filling effect. If you have side effects or concerns speak to your doctor. Product and treatment costs will apply. 

Belotero® is a Class III medical device to smooth facial wrinkles and folds, correct facial atrophic scars, restore of enhance the lips or restore facial volume 

Belotero has risk and benefits. Ask your specialist if Belotero is right for you. 

Contains transparent cross-linked sodium hyaluronate gel of non-animal origin with lidocaine 0.3% to reduce local pain. Do not use if you have a skin inflammation or a skin infection or until the infection is healed. 

Precautions: There is a risk of infection. Tell your doctor if you are on blood-clotting medicines as there could be an increased risk of bruising or bleeding at the injection site.  Possible side effects: swelling, bruising, redness hardening of the skin, pain, altered colour or itching. Lasts 6-12 months.

You will need to pay for this product and doctor’s fees apply. Merz, Sydney. Distributed by Healthcare Logistics, Auckland.

Profhilo®, containing low & high molecular weight hyaluronic acid, is a Class III medical device for the treatment of the face and body for contours redefinition and laxity remodelling where skin laxity is a problem.

Profhilo has risks and benefits. Do not use with treatments such a laser resurfacing or medium-deep skin-peeling. Caution in people on blood thinning medicines. Do not inject into inflamed areas or intravenously or intramuscularly.

Possible side effects: pain and swelling at injection site. Accelagen Pty. Ltd. Whanganui.

Sunekos® Sunekos 1200 is an implantable medical device that modifies the structure of mature skin, restoring volume, filling wrinkles and folds in the skin and in scar sites. It is suitable for creating a temporary increase in the volume of skin tissue. Sunekos 1200 is a medical device that is sterile, injectable, non-pyrogenic, biocompatible, re-absorbable, made with hyaluronic acid and amino acids.

Sunekos Performa is a medical device recommended for the treatment of blemishes and depressions in the skin caused by wrinkles and scars. Sunekos Performa is a sterile resorbable injectable solution which acts as a filler, supporting the restoration of physiological elasticity and temporarily replacing volume by expanding the soft tissues.

Sunekos should not be used on patients: with known hypersensitivity to any of its components; presenting with a general infection, inflammatory or infectious cutaneous problems; with history of severe multiple allergies or anaphylactic shock; prone to hypertrophic scars/keloids or streptococcal diseases; in patients presenting with porphyria; under 18 years of age; in pregnancy or lactation; others. See full Instructions for use before prescribing for full safety information, available from www.xytide.co.nz

Copyright© 2024. Xytide Biotech Pty Ltd. Always read the label and follow the instructions. This medical device must be administered by a Healthcare Professional. New Zealand Sponsor: AA-Med Pty Ltd.Distributed by: Xytide Biotech NZ Pty Ltd (NZBN 9429049668612) C/O Alliott Ltd, Level 2, 142 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland 1023 NZ. For more information please phone +61 1800 570 036