Category: Botox

The Tissue Level of Botox Injections in the Forehead

Botox is the most common method of forehead rejuvenation used today. Literally billions of injections has been done in various locations around the brows and upper forehead over the past two decades around the world. Its effectiveness is unquestioned and there is no indication that the number of treatments provided in the foreseeable Read More…

Botox Injections for Keloid Scars

Keloids represent the extreme of scar problems. As a tissue overgrowth response to an injury, and often progressive and unremitting, keloids are a true pathologic scar problem. Besides being an overly obvious scar problem, it is also highly refractory to conventional scar therapies. While many strategies have been used for difficult keloids after excision Read More…

Five Things You May Not Know About Botox

Botox is the trade name of the first commercially available preparation of botulinum toxin A (BTN-A). It is the miracle drug in aesthetic medicine, plastic surgery and neurology. Botox is so popular in aesthetic medicine because it predictably works each and every time. It is a medication in the real pharmacological sense of the Read More…

Unnatural Facial Appearances after Botox Injections

The use of botulinum toxin A, otherwise known as Botox, has become a common aesthetic practice around the world. It is used daily as a treatment to soften wrinkles, helping to prevent and correct tired and aging appearances. In today’s society looking as young on the exterior as people are feeling on the inside Read More…

Botox for Platysmal Neck Bands

Botox has a profound influence as a neuromuscular modulator in improving facial aesthetics. It is used to relax muscles, therefore softening and sometimes eliminating wrinkles on the face and neck. Most commonly known for its use in treating glabellar creases, horizontal forehead creases and crow’s feet, Botox has created a paradigm shift in the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Rhytiphobia and Botox

As we age the development of wrinkles on our faces is inevitable. The motion of the muscles of facial expression eventually cause permanent creases or wrinkles to develop in the skin. For some people wrinkles represent a positive reflecting signs of knowledge and experience. For others they are a sign of losing one’s youth Read More…

Botox Approved for Crow’s Feet Wrinkles

It was announced today that the most well known cosmetic drug, Botox, has been approved by the FDA to treat the wrinkles that radiate out from the eye, known as crow’s feet. This may come as a surprise to many since millions of people have received Botox injections around the eyes for years. Why Read More…

The Uniqueness of Male Plastic Surgery – Facial Procedures

The facial aging process is one that is well known as everyone will eventually see it on their face. The eyes get heavy, the brows descend, the cheek fall, jowls develop and the neck sags. Women become concerned earlier in the aging process and proceed to do procedures to treat or slow it down in Read More…

Botox and its Effect on Smiling

The importance of a smile in human interaction can not be denied. It is a seemingly simple facial expression that actually involves a large number of facial muscles that must work with great precision to create what one recognizes as a genuine smile. There are 43 muscles in the face and the number that Read More…

Botox Gets Younger

A recent news report indicates that more younger people are jumping into plastic surgery than ever before. Delving into the report shows that this is not for invasive surgery but is based on the migration of Botox use into patients down into even 20 year olds. According to the 2012 Plastic Surgery Statistics Report Read More…