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Forehead is wide area so evenly injection is important. In this chapter we will describe considerations of forehead augmentation, anatomy of forehead, and step by step approach of actual forehead augmentation by hyaluronic acid filler injection.
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Lee, W. (2022). Forehead Augmentation. In: Safe Filler Injection Techniques. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6855-5_3
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