The Magic in Botox
It’s very important to take care of your skin and regain your natural beauty, but it is not always that easy to be done by yourself…. BOTOX improves the look of wrinkles around your crow’s feet lines, between the eyebrows and in the forehead, even in severe cases. So by reading this article, you will be able to understand how they use Botox injections, and if you are a suitable candidate for this conservative safe procedure.
Botulinum toxin type A, has been recently used for treatment of esthetically challenging cases, with minimum invasive procedure. It blocks the release of neurotransmitters, therefore leading to muscle weakness (what it actually does, is that it blocks nerve impulses that control muscle contraction).
Botox is not only limited to aesthetic concerns, actually it is so useful in treatment of myofascial pain in bruxers, by decreasing muscle contraction, lowering the strain on muscles. An immediate effect of visible smoothing of your crow’s feet lines and frown lines between your brows will be seen.
Wrinkles that show in your face, is the result of decrease of collagen and free radicals influence caused by the sun and environmental exposures.
Crow’s Feet muscle wrinkles, is injected around the orbicularis oculi muscle, which is the muscle that frames the eye. Botox injection will reduce the wrinkle appearance.
Frown lines muscles between your eye brows, will be injected, causing temporarily reduction and paralysis of the muscles, with excellent results and almost disappearance in most of the cases.
It functions in esthetic treatment of gummy smile, in skeletal, gingival overgrowth, or hyperactive lip.
Correction of gummy smile
Botox is a non-invasive treatment to surgical gingival removal which sometimes do not give the required aesthetic, natural attractive smile the patient is dreaming of. Your smile is actually softened by Botox and this by reducing the appearance of a gummy smile.
The effect of Botox injections can last up to 4-6 months with only simple injections.
Not only Cosmetic but TMJ disorders Relief
Botox injections in facial muscles relieves TMJ pain and muscle tension. TMJ Botox injections improves the pain resulting from grinding and bruxism causing terrible headaches.
Safety of Botox
Botox, is apportioned in small doses below the required lethal dose, thus, unfavorable effects are unusual and often tender. (Chewing difficulty, infection, inflammation, allergy are the most unusual rare adverse effect.)
Botox is a super safe treatment, but to ensure this safety, you have to always work with a professional dental or medical physician who is trained in performing Botox injections.
Contraindications to Botox injection
- Known allergy to BOTOX.
- Active inflammation or infection at the injection site.
- Pregnancy and breast-feeding.
- Any medicine interfering with the neuromuscular transmission of the Botox and sometimes potentiating the effect of Botox, as some patients taking aminoglycoside antibiotics.
Dermal fillers are used in combination with Botox in esthetic and function treatment.
Fillers maybe permanent, temporary or semi-permanent. The most common is the hyaluronic acid which is temporary filler and acts as a matrix for collagen & elastic fibers.
Dermal Fillers are used for treatment of deficient chin, deficient maxilla, and facial asymmetry. It has been used for all facial asymmetry disorders.
Upper lip Botox Filling
Chin augmentation using fillers and Botox injection
