Table 10.

Differences Between “Gentle Pinch” and “Deep Pinch” with Non-Dominant Hand During Temporal Injection

	Gentle Pinch	Deep Pinch
Tissue layers involved	Bunches up the skin and subcutaneous fat with minimal movement of STF	Separates skin, subcutaneous fat and STF layers from superficial layer of DTF
Vascular relation	STA runs in superficial part of STF, just deep to the pinched tissue	Avascular loose areolar tissue plane lies deeper to the pinched tissue, STA being pulled up in the pinched tissue
Injection advice	Plane under this pinch is used as the most superficial plane for fillers in temple, after marking and staying away from the STA	Can be used as the middle plane for filler injection in the temple, while taking care of temporal branch of the facial nerve