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Figure 3. Complication focused articles: publication trend
Figure 4. Reported complications
even if delayed with respect to primary onset, for these complications. Therefore, injecting with a reliable
and safe technique plays a pivotal role in achieving optimal outcomes.
Indeed, publications on injection techniques constitute the majority [11-22,31,33,71] of the recorded articles.
Local anaesthesia has been widely used, either topically [13-17,48,52] or by local infiltration [11,16,60,61,66] . It has to be
noted that care must be taken when injecting anaesthetic solution in order to avoid untoward alteration of
the contours of the lower eyelid.
Nevertheless, some authors did not report the use of any form of anaesthesia for this treatment [32,73] .
