Beverly Hills Botox – Botox Injections

Botulinum Toxin Type A – commercially known as Botox – is derived from bacterium Clostridium Botulinum.   Injections of botulinum toxin A (BOTOX) are the most frequently performed cosmetic procedure in the United States.  The change from a little know specialty drug used by ophthalmologists, to the most frequent cosmetic procedure occurred in just over a decade.

Botox® is used to relax wrinkles, lines, furrows and folds and ease excessive perspiration.  It is a safe, muscle-relaxing agent used to treat unwanted wrinkles of the face, including forehead lines, crow’s feet, frown lines, cobble stoning in the chin and banding in the neck.  Botox® can raise the arch of the eyebrow, lift the corners of the mouth, ease excessive sweating in the underarms, palms, soles of the feet and helps reduce migraine pain.

Botox is approved for the treatment of glabellar furrows (lines between eyebrows)  in patients age 65 years or younger.  All other uses listed above are off-label.  Botox injections act on presynaptic nerve terminals so it is most commonly injected into the muscle where these terminals reside.  This results in a selective weakening of the muscles and achieves reduced wrinkles and a more youthful appearance.

Facial aging consist of many components, as does facial animation.  As long as a wrinkle is caused by a muscle action it can be treated with botox.  This explains why nearly all facial wrinkles can be treated with the botox toxin with varying degrees of success.

Botox injections are not recommended in the disorders of neuro musculature transmission such as myasthenia gravis and Lambert – Eaton syndome.  It should not be used in patients taking amino glycoside antibiotics whose use may potentiate the use of the toxin.  It should not be used in pregnant woman, woman attempting to become pregnant, or those breast-feeding, or those allergic to albumin.

The visible effects from Botox injections will appear within a matter of just 3 to 14 days.  Though results vary from person to person, on average the effects of the injections are seen to last for three to six months.  Repeat treatments are required once the botox has worn off.