Monday, June 10, 2013

Botox Your Way To A Refreshed Face

By Marlene Ataine


It has a safety record that is outstanding. It is affordable to get treated. The results are non-permanent but last for some time. And the results turn back the clocks of time. This is the calling card of Botox. Botox is an injection that is used to treat wrinkles and common skin symptoms brought about by the aging process or sun damage. It is used to target the muscles underneath the skin. As a result, a more youthful appearance is achieved. The injected liquid does not travel anywhere else in the body but in the facial muscle area. Normally, the effects of a single treatment will gradually diminish over a six month period.

It has been used to treat thousands of patients medically and cosmetically for over twenty years. There are a lot of myths about Botox. One of them is that it is poison being injected into patients. This is not accurate. It is a bacterium called clostridium botulinum that has been purified under very strict controlled conditions.

Not surprisingly in these super competitive times we live in, men are now turning to the power of Botox to look younger. The trend is obvious. You see it in daily news reports, in social media, and in general in popular culture. The market for men and Botox is expanding. Some industry reports have estimated that in the past six years alone, the number of men getting Botox injections has increase by 300 percent. That puts the actual numbers about a half a million men. A segment of about ten percent of all Botox injections.

There are probably many reasons that the number of men signing up for wrinkle-reducing injections is increasing. One main reason is that a lot of men are being introduced to it by their wives, who are more aware and sensitive to the impact of frown lines or those deep forehead lines that can make them look much older. Men no longer think of erasing wrinkles as a the domain of women.

Who Should Not be Receiving a Botox Treatment?

For a number of reasons, pregnant women, nursing mothers, or patients with neuromuscular diseases like myasthenia gravis, Lambert-Eaton syndrome, or AML, should not use Botox. You should not use Botox if you are allergic to human albumin. Regarding pregnancy or nursing, there are no tests. As such, the recommendation is that it should be avoided as a precaution.

Your specialist may numb the injection area slightly, but it is certainly not a necessity. The needle used for Botox injections is very fine and you should barely feel it. The procedure will likely take around ten minutes and you can return to daily activities shortly afterwards.

It's not surprising that the affordability of Botox is one of the factors that has driven it's popularity. Depending on the nature of the treatment, a BOTOX session will usually cost between $300 and $400 per syringe. Every four to six months, patients will have to return to have another procedure in order to maintain their results.




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