The botulinum toxin is a medication that diminishes the muscular mobility. This condition has been taken advantage clinically to treat some neurological sufferings. The botulinum toxin acts inhibiting the production of acetylcholine, a necessary neurotransmissor for the muscular contraction. For some years the toxin had been used in the field of the aesthetics.
Some doctors that used the medication in the treatment of facial paralysis, migraine, dystonias, blepharoespasms, hyper-hydrosis and strabismus realized that their patients besides achieving an improvement in their illness looked younger. The repeated cases gave place to the cosmetic use of the medication that applied in certain points of the face it diminishes the exaggerated face and therefore it preserves the skin, it diminishes the wrinkles and speeds down the natural process of aging.
Botox and Dysport are the commercial marks of this medication that relaxes the muscles, minimizing the wrinkles and furrows of the face, to get a lustier appearance. It is applied in those areas in those the expression wrinkles are more marked, as fore head, wrinkles of hen paw and among the brows. It is also used to elevate the arch of the brow, or to give him forms according to the facial oval.
The application is carried out in the clinic and after this the patient can return to habitual works without any impediment. The effects can have duration from 4 to 6 months.
This medication doesn't substitute the surgery, but in young people has excellent results in the preservation of the skin and the speed down of the aging process. The surgeons accustom to include this procedure like part of the treatment after a endoscopic frontoplasty a ritidoplasty or a blepharoplasty, which helps to sustain the results for much more time and to reach surprising benefits.
You should know that:
The effects of this medication are temporary and they last from 4 to 6 months.
It is considered a sure and effective treatment approved
by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of United States from 1989.
For precaution it is not applied on pregnant women. This medication can only be applied by the specialist doctor who knows the muscular structure of the face. An inexpert person easily could injure a nerve and to affect the facial expression (facial paralysis, ptosis palpebral). It's not advisable to exaggerate the dose.
