Archive for May, 2009:
May 28 2009
Botoxed – You, But Younger
Some might say Botox® injections are for the elite and exclusive. However, with more than 2.5 million treatments per year in the US, Botox injections are hardly exclusive. Despite recent economic slow down which has affected the sales of all luxury items including designer handbags and fine jewellery Botox® treatments continue to soar. So what is this treatment and how does it work?
Botox® is the trade name for a drug called botulinum toxin, a natural by product of the bacteria clostridia botulinum which is a nerve blocker. It has been used for over twenty years in medicine for muscular twitches and spasms. It is this effect which boasts its’ cosmetic value as long term muscle contractions is primarily the cause of the lines and wrinkles on the upper face.
To create ****** expressions we contract the muscles in our face. When you smile the muscles around your eyes contract to create wrinkles on their sides resembling the feet of a crow. Hence, permanent lines around your eyes are commonly known as “crow’s feet”. Looking up forms the horizontal lines on the forehead and frowning / getting angry creates the deep vertical lines in between the eyebrows (also known as anger / frown lines). With age the skin looses its structural qualities and with repetitive muscle contractions over years the lines and wrinkles slowly engrave in the skin. The lines get deeper and alter their pigmentation making the lines and wrinkles more prominent and permanent. Paralysing the respected muscles by local injection of Botox® stops the lines and wrinkle forming thereby relaxing the skin overlying. The relaxed skin not only looks more youthful but any damage done over the previous years will reverse with time. Permanent lines will start to disappear and the treatment will knock off years of your age.
Effects can last up to 6 months by when new nerves start regenerating into the muscles to produce contractions again gradually restoring your original appearance. Then its time for another shot of injections and the cycle continues. Despite the cost per average treatment – of up to 40,000 rupees the results achieved are second to none. Sometimes knocking a good 10/15 years of your age these injections have become known as simple, quick, and safe amongst the medical community. Common minor side effects include bruises (lasting up to a week), irritation and headaches, droopy eyebrow, a weeping eye or problems with ****** expressions most of which can be avoided by well trained and experienced cosmetic doctors. Serious side effect such as an anaphylactic shock is extremely rare.
With so much money at stake, will doctors really put the best interests of their patients first? If patients look better and if by implication have improved self-esteem, with minimal chances of complications and they there should be no ethical problem in treating those patients.
Botox® can also be used to improve chronic headaches, migraines, backaches and many more conditions associated with muscle contraction by relaxing the muscles that tense up in the respective regions. It is widely used in the oriental countries for patients with prominent jaw angles. Also, the same types of nerves that Botox® blocks also innervate the sweat glands. Hence, local Botox® injections are used to reduce sweating in patients with excessive sweating disorders most commonly on the face, palms, underarms and feet.
By: A. Farhan Haq
About the Author:
Botox® is the trade name for a drug called botulinum toxin, a natural by product of the bacteria clostridia botulinum which is a nerve blocker. It has been used for over twenty years in medicine for muscular twitches and spasms. It is this effect which boasts its’ cosmetic value as long term muscle contractions is primarily the cause of the lines and wrinkles on the upper face.
To create ****** expressions we contract the muscles in our face. When you smile the muscles around your eyes contract to create wrinkles on their sides resembling the feet of a crow. Hence, permanent lines around your eyes are commonly known as “crow’s feet”. Looking up forms the horizontal lines on the forehead and frowning / getting angry creates the deep vertical lines in between the eyebrows (also known as anger / frown lines). With age the skin looses its structural qualities and with repetitive muscle contractions over years the lines and wrinkles slowly engrave in the skin. The lines get deeper and alter their pigmentation making the lines and wrinkles more prominent and permanent. Paralysing the respected muscles by local injection of Botox® stops the lines and wrinkle forming thereby relaxing the skin overlying. The relaxed skin not only looks more youthful but any damage done over the previous years will reverse with time. Permanent lines will start to disappear and the treatment will knock off years of your age.
Effects can last up to 6 months by when new nerves start regenerating into the muscles to produce contractions again gradually restoring your original appearance. Then its time for another shot of injections and the cycle continues. Despite the cost per average treatment – of up to 40,000 rupees the results achieved are second to none. Sometimes knocking a good 10/15 years of your age these injections have become known as simple, quick, and safe amongst the medical community. Common minor side effects include bruises (lasting up to a week), irritation and headaches, droopy eyebrow, a weeping eye or problems with ****** expressions most of which can be avoided by well trained and experienced cosmetic doctors. Serious side effect such as an anaphylactic shock is extremely rare.
With so much money at stake, will doctors really put the best interests of their patients first? If patients look better and if by implication have improved self-esteem, with minimal chances of complications and they there should be no ethical problem in treating those patients.
Botox® can also be used to improve chronic headaches, migraines, backaches and many more conditions associated with muscle contraction by relaxing the muscles that tense up in the respective regions. It is widely used in the oriental countries for patients with prominent jaw angles. Also, the same types of nerves that Botox® blocks also innervate the sweat glands. Hence, local Botox® injections are used to reduce sweating in patients with excessive sweating disorders most commonly on the face, palms, underarms and feet.
By: A. Farhan Haq
About the Author:
Expert Cosmetic Doctors In Botox And Dermal Filler for Wrinkles, Excessive Sweating Hyperhidrosis Clinics in London and UK, Jaw Reduction, Lip Enhancement and know more at info@cosmedocs.co.uk .
May 23 2009
Reducing Lines and Wrinkles With Botox
If you are intent on reducing lines associated with aging, the chances are you will use botox; there is however, still a great deal of ignorance
about how it achieves the results it does. Despite its recent rise to fame, the original research into this product is a few decades old. It may be famous now for its use in cosmetic surgery but it wasn’t always that way when it was first being studied by scientists half a century ago; it was used to treat patients with neurological problems.
A treatment finally came in 1989 when the FDA granted approval for it to be used on these patients with visual conditions; patients suffering with uncontrollable blinking and crossed eyes were given this and sometimes those who suffered with wrinkles as well. By the new millennium it had been approved for a number of other conditions including cervical dystonia; this disorder causes severe neck and shoulder contractions but they also permitted it to be used with other eye problems. The strange discovery they made quite by accident was that botox helps to reduce the visible lines between the eyebrows; after this in 2002 the FDA approved it’s use on the condition that it was a cosmetic procedure.
You see botox is a neuro toxin, meaning it paralyses the muscles it is injected into and makes them relax; after a number of treatments the lines start to lessen. If this procedure is continued, in many instances the lines will soften so much they will seem to disappear; now the same procedure is used on other areas of the face where lines form, generally with age. The injections actually contain a purified form of the Botulinum toxin; this same botulism can make us very ill but when use in cosmetic surgery it is a purified form the Botulinum toxin.
The reason people want to get botox injection is because every time you laugh, smile, frown, or for that matter do just about anything with your ****** muscles, wrinkles are caused by the underlying contractions of these muscles. This treatment is able to take back, for a temporary period, all those years of lines, creases and wrinkles that has formed from the use of our ****** muscles; many ’skin age reduction cream’ manufacturers have tried to produce creams that reduce ****** line but this is the only treatment that works, currently. The uses of botox paralyzes the ****** muscles which means everyday expressions we use in communication and take for granted cannot be made; these treatments provide the user with a ****** surface that is smooth and often referred to as looking like a dummy or mannequin.
People still have enough movement to look fairly normal but not enough to cause these wrinkles; so in fact by getting botox injections they help you to look younger. Whilst popular this cosmetic treatment is still very expensive for what it is; the average cost of just one injection in the United States ranges from a few hundred dollars to in excess of 1,000 dollars, depending on where the injection is used. As a recent form of cosmetic enhancement it may be some time before the full facts about long term botox use will be known but for now, most people really aren’t that concerned.
By: John Richard
About the Author:
about how it achieves the results it does. Despite its recent rise to fame, the original research into this product is a few decades old. It may be famous now for its use in cosmetic surgery but it wasn’t always that way when it was first being studied by scientists half a century ago; it was used to treat patients with neurological problems.
A treatment finally came in 1989 when the FDA granted approval for it to be used on these patients with visual conditions; patients suffering with uncontrollable blinking and crossed eyes were given this and sometimes those who suffered with wrinkles as well. By the new millennium it had been approved for a number of other conditions including cervical dystonia; this disorder causes severe neck and shoulder contractions but they also permitted it to be used with other eye problems. The strange discovery they made quite by accident was that botox helps to reduce the visible lines between the eyebrows; after this in 2002 the FDA approved it’s use on the condition that it was a cosmetic procedure.
You see botox is a neuro toxin, meaning it paralyses the muscles it is injected into and makes them relax; after a number of treatments the lines start to lessen. If this procedure is continued, in many instances the lines will soften so much they will seem to disappear; now the same procedure is used on other areas of the face where lines form, generally with age. The injections actually contain a purified form of the Botulinum toxin; this same botulism can make us very ill but when use in cosmetic surgery it is a purified form the Botulinum toxin.
The reason people want to get botox injection is because every time you laugh, smile, frown, or for that matter do just about anything with your ****** muscles, wrinkles are caused by the underlying contractions of these muscles. This treatment is able to take back, for a temporary period, all those years of lines, creases and wrinkles that has formed from the use of our ****** muscles; many ’skin age reduction cream’ manufacturers have tried to produce creams that reduce ****** line but this is the only treatment that works, currently. The uses of botox paralyzes the ****** muscles which means everyday expressions we use in communication and take for granted cannot be made; these treatments provide the user with a ****** surface that is smooth and often referred to as looking like a dummy or mannequin.
People still have enough movement to look fairly normal but not enough to cause these wrinkles; so in fact by getting botox injections they help you to look younger. Whilst popular this cosmetic treatment is still very expensive for what it is; the average cost of just one injection in the United States ranges from a few hundred dollars to in excess of 1,000 dollars, depending on where the injection is used. As a recent form of cosmetic enhancement it may be some time before the full facts about long term botox use will be known but for now, most people really aren’t that concerned.
By: John Richard
About the Author:
About the Author:
The author writes articles on get botox injection. For more information about the uses of botox and getting botox injections can be found on the net.
May 11 2009
How do I get rid of forehead creases?
NeedAnswers asked:
Hi. I am 14 years old and I already have two horizonal creases on my forehead. My mom says it’s normal but I think she just doesn’t want to deal with any drama. I know it’s not normal and I want them gone before the school year! Any ideas? And I won’t do botox or surgery. That would be silly
Hi. I am 14 years old and I already have two horizonal creases on my forehead. My mom says it’s normal but I think she just doesn’t want to deal with any drama. I know it’s not normal and I want them gone before the school year! Any ideas? And I won’t do botox or surgery. That would be silly
