Botox - The Temporary Wrinkle Solution
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The article "BOTOX - The Temporary Wrinkle Solution" is about women's issues, it has been created by Harald Anderson.
Botox has made a huge splash in the health and beauty market cause of its ability to erase and minimize wrinkles.
The sutnning success of the BOTOX solution has had beauty enthusiasts lining up to receive their wrinkle treatments.
Are botox treatmetns safe?
After all BoTOX is a protein toxin produced by clostridium botulinum bacteria. This is the first cousin to the deadly botulism bacteria.
Botox has been safely used by opthamoligists for over a decade without any serious side effects being reported. This drug has actulaly been around for the early 1960's.
Originally it was used as a treatemnt for crossed eyes. The manner in which botox works is that it is injected into the muscle where the wrinkles appear. When the botox is injected into the msucle the frown lines, crow's feet and laugh lines temporarily disappear. I stress the use of the word "temporary" cause a botox treatment normally lasts about 3 to 6 months. Botox treatments were approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment of muscles that produce frown lines.
Botox injections have quickly become the fastest growing cosmetic procedure and are anticipated to be used on over 4.5 million patients in 2006.
They are more popualr than breast augmentation. Current botox patients report that after several treatments that the effects of this wrinkle cure last much longer.
It is important to note that Botox is ineffective for fine wrinkles cause fine wrinkles do not appear cause of faical expression caused by facial muscles.
On the flipside, the one negative of botox treatments is a slight and temporary drooping of the eyelid. At the present time this appears to be the most important side effect of botox treatment.
While botox has been safely used by millions of patients, it is recommended that pregnant women, or girls who are breastfeeding their babies as well as patients suffering from neurologic disease should never use botox.
Botox treatments do not work for evreyone.
However, over 90% of patients who have been surveyed are extermely happy with this procedure. This temporary cure for wrinkles has created quite a bit of excitement in the health and beauty field. This procdeure is administered by qualified plastic surgeons. The average cost for a simple botox treatment is about $200 - $400 for each area that it is applied to.
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