A woman whose lip swelled up unexpectedly during a lip filler procedure discovered it was because she had leukemia.

Edita Jucaite, 36, a dental nurse from Banbury, Oxfordshire, previously had dermal fillers without incident.

But in April 2023, during a procedure in which she also had botox injected into her eyebrows and forehead, something went wrong.

"When the dermal filler went into my lip it immediately swelled up," she explained.

Ms. Jucaite had been modeling for a dentist colleague who was learning how to do the injections under trainer dentist Dr Brian Franks.

"Dr Franks and his colleague were concerned and said they wanted me to see my doctor," she said.

"What I hadn’t mentioned before we started was that I had bruises elsewhere on my body, which hadn’t been caused by me knocking into something."

Dr Franks said: "This was a consequence of treatment I had personally not encountered before.

"It appeared rather abnormal that the swelling occurred in a site and position of the lip not associated with the injection site."

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