Botox and Neurotoxins

Any healthy adult, male or female (who are not pregnant or nursing), wanting a more youthful appearance is a good candidate for Botox. Patients often mention they get comments about looking tired, angry or unapproachable because of frown lines between the brows. They want to look how they feel inside. Just because they look grumpy, mad, or sad while their face is at rest, doesn’t mean they are grumpy, mad or sad. Botox is not limited to just for making you look more youthful, but can help patients put forward a a better reflection of ther inner feelings outward that can add to confidence and positive feelings.

 

Not all wrinkles are alike. It may be hard to believe, not all wrinkles are bad. They help to highlight your facial features and give you unique characteristics. Without wrinkles, your face would be void of personality and expressiveness. Your face is unique to you, no one has one just like it, and the lines and curves of your face help to tell your story. However, we do understand that wrinkles can detract from your beauty and make you appear older than you actually are.

 

Dynamic wrinkles appear when expressing emotions, such as fear, worry, joy, sadness, or surprise. You will notice them when you smile, laugh, frown, cry, or during moments of deep concentration. Dynamic wrinkles fade as quickly as they appear. Once the emotion passes and your face goes blank, you will no longer see them. Common dynamic wrinkles include:

• Frown Lines (between the eyebrows)

• Forehead wrinkles

• Crow’s Feet

• Smile lines

 

Static wrinkles, however, remain on the face even after our facial muscles relax and tend to deepen with age. They are typically a source of frustration and can make someone in their 20s and 30s look older than their age. Examples of static wrinkles include lines at the corners of the mouth, across the cheeks, and along the neck.

As you age, collagen production declines and causes the skin to lose elasticity. As a result, dynamic wrinkles, such as smile lines around the nose and mouth will eventually become static wrinkles. Fine lines and wrinkles can be further emphasized by genetics, smoking, and a poor diet.

 

BOTOX® has been approved by the FDA for use in treating dynamic wrinkles. It has successfully been used on millions of people around the world for more than a decade. For this reason, BOTOX® has developed a reputation that is unmatched in the world of cosmetic procedures.

 

BOTOX® works the best for individuals who are between the ages of 18 and 65. If you are under 18, it is very unlikely that you have developed dynamic wrinkles that require the use of this product. If you have, there’s probably an underlying condition that needs to be observed by our medical professional.

 

To get the most out of BOTOX®, you have to understand what the product can do for you before you have the procedure performed. BOTOX® will not make you a different person. It will not make you look decades younger. It will minimize the appearance of dynamic wrinkles, thereby making you a better version of yourself. If you understand this going into the procedure, then you are probably a good candidate for BOTOX®.

 

You may not be a good candidate if:

• You are allergic to any ingredient in Botox or another botulinum toxin product.

• You have a skin infection at the planned site of injection.

• You are pregnant or breast-feeding.

• You have a muscle or nerve condition such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or myasthenia gravis.

• You have a severe illness or infection.