Short for Botulinum toxin, Botox is the registered name for a natural protein, extracted bacteria and purified. When injected in tiny amounts into facial muscles, it creates a smooth appearance on the skin, making it look younger. It entails a non-surgical procedure that takes minutes, smoothing out lines on the face that have develop over years of smiling, tested and approved by the US FDA.
Injections are localized, depending on where it is needed. Because the injections are placed in specific areas, key facial muscles can be avoided to keep from hanging your facial expressions.
>> What happen during the treatment?
Before Botox
After consultation based on your needs, your doctor will administer small amounts of botox using a fine needle into specific facial muscles. No anesthetic is needed and discomfort is minimal or its just an ant bite. The treatment takes around 10 minutes, and it takes two to three days for Botox to begin taking effect. After a full week, the full effects of the treatment apparent. There is no need to recover from illness or rest from the treatment and patients immediately after Botox wears off, muscles slowly return to their original state, and wrinkles and lines of expression eventually return.
The most common side effects when Botox was used for wrinkle treatment, were limited to the areas of injection, including soreness, mild bruising, headaches and less commonly, heavy eyelids that last up to four weeks, which are treatable. No permanent side effects have been reported from Botox use.
It is used widely for the elimination of forehead wrinkles, frown lines between eyebrows and lines around the eye. Botox can be used to lift droopy eyebrows for a brighter appearance, as well as reduce lines in the neck and chin area, around the mouth and folds between nose and mouth. Botox will not aggravate existing lines once it wears off.
After Botox
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