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Botox Treatments
Botox® is a toxin produced by a bacteria called botulinum. Although in very large doses it can cause botulism, Botox® is safe in the doses used for cosmetic and therapeutic purposes. It has also been used to treat eye twitches, excessive palm or armpit sweating, and headaches. In the mid 1990's, plastic surgeons began using Botox® injections to treat facial wrinkles.
Botox® will dramatically improve (and often eliminate) horizontal forehead creases, scowl lines between your eyebrows, crow's feet, and vertical wrinkles of your upper lip.
Botox® is ineffective for fine wrinkles because they are not due to facial expression. To address fine wrinkles, you should see Skin Care, Micropeels, and Blue Peels. Botox® is also ineffective for wrinkles around your mouth that are due to sagging cheeks. To address the wrinkles from sagging cheeks, you should see Facelift.
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Botox General Information
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How Botox® Works
Dynamic wrinkles, such as crow's feet, frown lines, and forehead wrinkles, are due to repetitive facial expression. Weakening the muscles responsible for these facial expressions can dramatically improve these wrinkles. With Botox®, these muscles can be weakened without detracting from your facial expressiveness.
The Procedure
Botox® can be injected by your plastic surgeon in the office. You may experience brief mild discomfort as you are being injected. Following injection, recovery is immediate: you may place make-up and return to work immediately. A few experience mild bruising that improves within a few days. You will begin to see improvement in your wrinkles within 24 hours and continue to see improvement for 5 days.
How Long Does Botox® Last?
Botox® results may last about six months, although the range varies from 3 to 12 months.
Risks of Botox®
No negative long-term effects have been observed. Very few short-term problems have arisen. If Botox® is injected too close to your upper eyelids, temporary upper eyelid droop may result. This can take months to improve. Injection of your forehead will diminish your ability to raise your eyebrows. This is not a problem for most, but those with marked eyebrow droop may find that their droop worsens following injection. Risk of allergic reaction is extremely small. Women who are pregnant or who have nervous system diseases such as ALS should not receive injections of Botox®. |
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Using Botox To Treat Excess Sweating
If anti-perspirant isn’t keeping you dry this summer, resulting in those oh-so-attractive pit stains, botox might be the new trendy answer.
Botox, short for Botulinum toxin, is a neurotoxin protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Though it is one of the most poisonous substances in the world, specialists use it in very small amounts to stop muscle spasms and most commonly to smooth out facial wrinkles by paralyzing the muscles that cause them to form.
Botox also is used to treat:
In the last few years, excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, has been added to that list. While the body usually sweats to cool itself when it is hot outside or in certain emotional states, such as nervousness, people with excessive sweating experience it independent of these factors and sometimes find their condition physically and socially uncomfortable.
Hyperhidrosis affects about 1 percent of the population, both men and women, most often under the arms and on the palms and feet.
Prescription anti-perspirants and pills are sometimes used to treat excessive sweating by temporarily reducing sweat production, but they can have side effects such as a dry mouth and eyes. A surgery called sympathectomy can prevent sweating by severing the nerves that signal the sweat glands.
Botox treats hyperhidrosis by blocking a neurotransmitter that stimulates the sweat glands, essentially paralyzing them. The treatment, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved in 2004, involves several injections in the armpits and can last for up to eight months.
Eye Twitch Treatment Using Botox
There are really three basic approaches to the treatment of blepharospasm: drug therapy, surgery and supportive or preventative therapy. Drug therapy for eye twitching is a somewhat unpredictable type of treatment and doesn’t always produce long lasting results. Some drugs work for some people and not for others. Arriving at a satisfactory treatment regimen takes a great deal of patience and the direct supervision of a neurologist.
Before embarking upon a surgical treatment, most doctors will suggest a trial of BOTOX® Injections which is very often quite effective and also quite safe. BOTOX® is administered through a few tiny injections of the highly purified protein into the muscle to block nerve impulses that trigger eye twitching. BOTOX® Injections are a simple and quick, minimally invasive treatment that can deliver dramatic results for patients suffering from blepharospasm. If neither drug nor the non invasive approach of BOTOX® Injections are successful, then surgery may be considered.
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