Patent ID: 8038665

Claim:
A method of administering a material to a patient for aesthetic soft tissue enhancement comprising (a) providing a material to be administered in a syringe; (b) injecting a needle of the syringe into the patient at a first injection site; (c) advancing the needle into the patient approximately along a first horizontal plane with respect to epidermis of the patient, to an area of the patient in need of soft-tissue enhancement; (d) injecting at least a portion of the material substantially into the first horizontal plane while retracting the needle, leaving a portion of the needle in the patient; (e) directing the needle to an angle of about 1° to 25° with respect to the patient from a prior needle position; (f) advancing the needle into the patient approximately along a second horizontal plane with respect to the epidermis of the patient, said second horizontal plane being at a different depth into the patient with respect to the epidermis of the patient than said first horizontal plane; (g) injecting material substantially into the second horizontal plane while retracting the needle; and (h) removing the needle from the patient; wherein the method aesthetically recontours skin of the patient by soft tissue enhancement.