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There's a Reason Why Botox is So Popular
It's More Than a Wrinkle-Filler
When Botox hit the market in 2002 it quickly became a runaway success. Women immediately loved it and they shot the message out on the grapevine: This stuff is great!
By paralyzing specific facial muscles, Botox clears away that tense, tight, hardened look that detracts from the face’s natural beauty. The result is a smoother, more relaxed and beautiful face.
Stress Gives You a Tired Look
After all, facial aging isn’t just about gravity and thinning facial skin. Stress and tension are just as harmful. My patients who get Botox Cosmetic around the eyes and forehead often tell me how utterly amazed they are by the results. They were expecting nothing more than relief from Crow’s feet or worry lines. What they got was both more subtle and more encompassing: they got their facial features back!
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"It's like watching your younger face
slowly reappear in the mirror!"
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Restoring Balance to the Features
My patients found, to their surprise, that relaxing their frown lines widened the eyes and forehead area, making their noses appear smaller and re-proportioning the upper and lower face. When it comes to beauty, proportion is everything. Change the proportions of upper, middle and lower face and you can resolve many of the issues that result in what our culture calls “fading beauty.”
A Minor Procedure
The injections only take about 15 minutes, and you can return to your normal life right away. The results gradually appear over a seven to ten day period. It’s like watching your younger face slowly reappear in the mirror!
After a Botox treatment, your muscles will stay relaxed for about four to six months. Botox must be refreshed regularly. The good news: for as long as you are using Botox, new skin creases do not form in that area, because the muscles that cause creases are disabled.
Expressiveness Is Not Compromised
Many patients ask me: “Will I be able to frown, smile and use my face to express my feelings after Botox injections?”
Yes. I have learned to study each patient's animation before injecting Botox, and to apply the correct dosage in the correct spots so you still have plenty of expressiveness.
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Two Warnings
Botox Cosmetic is not right for everyone. It should not be used by anyone who is allergic to botulinum toxin type A, is pregnant, or is breast-feeding.
Another caveat: Never, ever attend a so-called “Botox party.” Botox should be injected in a qualified physician’s office, not at a social event where people are drinking or otherwise distracted from concentrating on getting a good result. Also, there are inferior grades of the toxin circulating around that can harm you, and only a licensed physician with knowledge of facial anatomy can inject it properly. In the state of Florida, a law was passed just last summer making it illegal for anyone other than a plastic surgeon or dermatologist to inject Botox.
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Improvements Delight Everyone
I’ve been pleased to see what Botox has done for my patients, and my patients have been delighted with their improvements! Botox is one of the best low-impact facial rejuvenators around. I have a specific injection style that makes injection almost completely painless.
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